The Old Year

John Clare (1793 - 1864)

John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption. His biographer Jonathan Bate states that Clare was "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 from Wikipedia)

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

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 The Old Year - Read by AS Ann Simmons
00:01:26
Play 02 The Old Year - Read by CCS Claudia Salto
00:01:40
Play 03 The Old Year - Read by DL David Lawrence
00:01:18
Play 04 The Old Year - Read by EEP Ernst Pattynama
00:01:30
Play 05 The Old Year - Read by GB Garth Burton
00:01:25
Play 06 The Old Year - Read by JCM Jason Mills
00:01:18
Play 07 The Old Year - Read by JCW Joe Weinmunson
00:01:06
Play 08 The Old Year - Read by JN Julia Niedermaier
00:01:20
Play 09 The Old Year - Read by LAH Lee Ann Howlett
00:01:14
Play 10 The Old Year - Read by MJK Michael Keen
00:01:04
Play 11 The Old Year - Read by RN ravenotation
00:01:33
Play 12 The Old Year - Read by SP Stephen Perry
00:01:11
Play 13 The Old Year - Read by SRB Scott Birney
00:01:21