I Am by John Clare
An A level English Student Guide by Julia Geddes, Kitty Graham and Helen Ince
~ Wessex Publications ~
Selected Poems by John Clare
CONTENTS
Page
Using the Workbook......................................................................................1
How to Study Poetry......................................................................................2
John Clare 1793 - 1864 ..................................................................................3
The Poems
A Country Village Year.................................................................................6
December from ‘The Shepherd’s Calendar’: Christmas ...............................6
Sonnet: ‘The barn door is open’ ...................................................................11
The Wheat Ripening......................................................................................13
The Beans in Blossom ...................................................................................16
Sonnet: ‘The landscape laughs in Spring’ .....................................................19
Sonnet: ‘I dreaded walking where there was no path’...................................21
Sonnet: ‘The passing traveller’......................................................................23
Sport in the Meadows....................................................................................25
Emmonsales Heath ........................................................................................27
Summer Tints ................................................................................................31
The Summer Shower .....................................................................................33
Summer Moods..............................................................................................36
Sonnet: ‘The maiden ran away’.....................................................................39
Song: ‘She tied up her few things’
~ Wessex Publications ~
Selected Poems by John Clare
CONTENTS
Page
Using the Workbook......................................................................................1
How to Study Poetry......................................................................................2
John Clare 1793 - 1864 ..................................................................................3
The Poems
A Country Village Year.................................................................................6
December from ‘The Shepherd’s Calendar’: Christmas ...............................6
Sonnet: ‘The barn door is open’ ...................................................................11
The Wheat Ripening......................................................................................13
The Beans in Blossom ...................................................................................16
Sonnet: ‘The landscape laughs in Spring’ .....................................................19
Sonnet: ‘I dreaded walking where there was no path’...................................21
Sonnet: ‘The passing traveller’......................................................................23
Sport in the Meadows....................................................................................25
Emmonsales Heath ........................................................................................27
Summer Tints ................................................................................................31
The Summer Shower .....................................................................................33
Summer Moods..............................................................................................36
Sonnet: ‘The maiden ran away’.....................................................................39
Song: ‘She tied up her few things’