John Clare was ‘the peasant poet’ whose voice was one of the very few to chronicle the major phase of England’s enclosure. He worked on and wrote about the fields and woods around his birthplace, Helpston in Northamptonshire and saw the land which was his living and his muse fenced in. Anyone who ha...
I've left my own old home of homes,
Green fields and every pleasant place;
The summer like a stranger comes,
I pause and hardly know her face.
All the King's men
Beneath Big Ben
The empty vessel
And closed five million acres
Mad John was written by Chris Wood.
Mad John was produced by Chris Wood.
Chris Wood released Mad John on Mon Jan 01 2007.