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Letter In Verse

John Clare (1793 - 1864)

LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Letter In Verse by John Clare.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 10, 2025.
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ohn Clare was an English poet. The son of a farm labourer, he became known for his celebrations of the English countryside and his sorrows at its disruption. His biographer Jonathan Bate called Clare "the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and unstable self." - Summary by Wikipedia

Genre(s): Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

Language: English

Keyword(s): children (1100), philosophy (961), youth (60), boyhood (5), summertime (2)

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Letter In Verse - Read by AL nighthawks
00:01:59
Play 02 Letter In Verse - Read by BK Bruce Kachuk
00:01:42
Play 03 Letter In Verse - Read by BWC Beeswaxcandle
00:01:21
Play 04 Letter In Verse - Read by DBG Owlivia
00:01:33
Play 05 Letter In Verse - Read by DC dc
00:01:22
Play 06 Letter In Verse - Read by DL David Lawrence
00:01:37
Play 07 Letter In Verse - Read by DLS LeeSalter
00:01:37
Play 08 Letter In Verse - Read by EL0 Newgatenovelist
00:01:33
Play 09 Letter In Verse - Read by LAH Lee Ann Howlett
00:01:30
Play 10 Letter In Verse - Read by PFS Phil Schempf
00:01:34
Play 11 Letter In Verse - Read by SLM Stacey Malcolm
00:01:21
Play 12 Letter In Verse - Read by SV secondvoice
00:01:34
Play 13 Letter In Verse - Read by VLS V.L. Sky
00:01:26