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John Clare
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Byron : Don Juan
'Thursday 16 sept 1824. Had a visit from my friend Henderson of Milton who brought 'Don Juan' in his Pocket' [He] 'advisd me to raed 'Don Juan'we talkd about books & flowers & butterflyes till noon& then he discanted on Don Juan [...] I think a good deal of his opinion & shall read it when I am able. 'Friday 17 Sept Began Don Juan 2 verses of the Shipwreck very fine & the character of Haideeisthe best I have yet met...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Serial / periodical
: John Bull Magazine
"Bought the John Bull Magazine out of curiosity to see if I was among the black sheep it grows in dulness thats one comfort to those that it nicknames 'Humbugs' [.]"
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Serial / periodical
: The New Testament
'came home & read a chapter or two in the New Testament'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
John Foxe : Foxes Book of Martyrs
I have read Foxes book of Martyrs & finished it today
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
Izaak Walton : The Complete Angler
'The rainy morning has kept me at home & I have amused myself heartily sitting under Waltons Sycamore tree hearing him discourse of fish ponds & fishing. What a delightful book it is the best English Pastoral
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
: The London Magazine
Read the September No of the London Mag: only 2 good articles in it-'Blakesmore in H-shire' by Elia & review of 'Goethe' by De Quincey these are excellent and sufficient to make a bad No. interesting.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Serial / periodical
: The Bible
'I have read the first chapter of Genesis the beginning of which is very fine but the sacred historian took a great deal on credit for this world when he imagines that god created the sun moon & stars [...] for no other purpose than its use " the greater light to rule the day & the lesser light to rule the night" ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
William Shakespeare : The Sonnets
'read some of the Sonnets of shakspear which are great favourites of mine & lookd into the Poems of Chatterton to see what he says about flowers & have found that he speaks of the Lady smock [quotes from 'The Battle of Hastings'].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
Thomas Chatterton : 'Poems of Chatterton'
'read some of the Sonnets of shakspear which are great favourites of mine & lookd into the Poems of Chatterton to see what he says about flowers & have found that he speaks of the Lady smock [quotes from 'The Battle of Hastings'].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
: Moore's Almanack
'all I have read today is Moores Almanack for the account of the weather which speaks of rain tho it is very hot.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: almanack
William Collins Collins : 'Odes' [Appears to be a volume of Odes by various authors]
'Read some of the Odes of Collins think them superior to Grays [...] I cannot describe the pleasure I feel in reading them [...] I find in the same Vol Odes by a poet of the name of Oglivie [...] they appear to me to be bold intruders to claim company with Gray and Collins'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
John Ogilvie : 'Odes' [Appears to be a volume of Odes by various authors]
'Read some of the Odes of Collins think them superior to Grays [...] I cannot describe the pleasure I feel in reading them [...] I find in the same Vol Odes by a poet of the name of Oglivie [...] they appear to me to be bold intruders to claim company with Gray and Collins'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
: 'the Song Solomon'
till noon returnd & read snatches in several poets & the Song of Solomon thought the supposed illusions in that luscious poem to our saviour very overstrained....'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Unknown
John Milton :
'Read in Milton: his account of his blindness is very pathetic & I am always affected to tears'. Makes reference to 'Paradise Lost and 'regaind' "'Comus' & 'Allegro' & 'Penserose' are those which I take up most often"Quotes from 'Comus' ll.291-3.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
Thomas Gray : Letters
Wrote another chapter of my Life read a little in Gray's Letters [...] they are the best letters I have seen & I consider Burns very inferior [.]
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare
: The Human Heart
'Look'd over the "Human Heart" the title has little connection with the contents- it displays the art of book making in half filld pages & fine paper'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
Josiah Conder : The Star in the East
'Read the poems of Conder over a second time [...] I am much pleasd with many more which I shall read anon'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
John Hamilton Reynolds : The Garden of Florence
'Began to read again the 'Garden of Florence' by Reynolds it is a beautiful simple tale' [describes other poems in vol].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
: Epistle of St John
'read in the testamentthe Epistle of St John I love that simple hearted expression of brotherly affection & love'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
: [playbill]
'this morning a play bill was thrown into my house with this pompous blunder on the face of it [...].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Handbill, playbill
James Thomson : The Seasons
'At age thirteen John Clare was shown The Seasons by a Methodist weaver and though he had no real experience of poetry, he was immediately enthralled by Thomson's evocation of spring'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
: Cinderella
'As a boy, the poet John Clare consumed six-penny romances of Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk, "and great was the pleasure, pain or surprise increased by allowing them authenticity, for I firmly believed every page I read and considered I possessed in these the chief learning and literature of the country".'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
: Jack and the Beanstalk
'As a boy, the poet John Clare consumed six-penny romances of Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk, "and great was the pleasure, pain or surprise increased by allowing them authenticity, for I firmly believed every page I read and considered I possessed in these the chief learning and literature of the country".'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe
'For John Clare [Robinson Crusoe] was "the first book of any merit I got hold of after I could read", and it set in motion an early ferment: "New ideas from the perusal of this book was now up in arms, new Crusoes and new islands of solitude was continually muttered over in my journeys to and from school".'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
: Cinderella
'... late in the [eighteenth] century [John] Clare ... learned to read from chapbooks like "Cinderella", "Little Red Riding Hood", and "Jack and the Beanstalk".'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
: Little Red Riding Hood
'... late in the [eighteenth] century [John] Clare ... learned to read from chapbooks like "Cinderella", "Little Red Riding Hood", and "Jack and the Beanstalk".'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
: Jack and the Beanstalk
'... late in the [eighteenth] century [John] Clare ... learned to read from chapbooks like "Cinderella", "Little Red Riding Hood", and "Jack and the Beanstalk".'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
: Cinderella
"John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the nineteenth century commenced: "'About now all my stock of learning was gleaned from the Sixpenny Romances of 'Cinderella', 'Little Red Riding Hood', 'Jack and the bean Stalk', 'Zig Zag', 'Prince Cherry', etc and great was the pleasure, pain, or supprise increased by allowing them authenticity, for I firmly believed every page I read ...'"
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance"
: Little Red Riding Hood
"John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the nineteenth century commenced: "'About now all my stock of learning was gleaned from the Sixpenny Romances of 'Cinderella', 'Little Red Riding Hood', 'Jack and the bean Stalk', 'Zig Zag', 'Prince Cherry', etc and great was the pleasure, pain, or supprise increased by allowing them authenticity, for I firmly believed every page I read ...'"
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance"
: Jack and the Beanstalk
"John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the nineteenth century commenced: "'About now all my stock of learning was gleaned from the Sixpenny Romances of 'Cinderella', 'Little Red Riding Hood', 'Jack and the bean Stalk', 'Zig Zag', 'Prince Cherry', etc and great was the pleasure, pain, or supprise increased by allowing them authenticity, for I firmly believed every page I read ...'"
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance"
: Zig Zag
"John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the nineteenth century commenced: "'About now all my stock of learning was gleaned from the Sixpenny Romances of 'Cinderella', 'Little Red Riding Hood', 'Jack and the bean Stalk', 'Zig Zag', 'Prince Cherry', etc and great was the pleasure, pain, or supprise increased by allowing them authenticity, for I firmly believed every page I read ...'"
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance"
: Prince Cherry
"John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the nineteenth century commenced: "'About now all my stock of learning was gleaned from the Sixpenny Romances of 'Cinderella', 'Little Red Riding Hood', 'Jack and the bean Stalk', 'Zig Zag', 'Prince Cherry', etc and great was the pleasure, pain, or supprise increased by allowing them authenticity, for I firmly believed every page I read ...'"
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance"
: 'Spelling Book' (grammar)
John Clare, writing in 1821, on his attempt to use a school primer to help improve his written English: '"Borrowing a school book of a companion having some entertaining things in it both in prose and verse, with an introduction by the compiler [...] in this introduction was rules both for writing as well as reading [...] stumbling on a remark that a person who knew nothing of grammar was not capable of writing a letter nor even a bill of parcels, I was quite in the suds, seeing that I had gone on thus far without learning the first rudiments of doing it properly [...] I determined to try grammar, and [...] by the advice of a friend, bought the "Spelling Book" as the most easy assistant for my starting out. But finding a jumble of words classed under this name, and that name and this such-a-figure of speech and that another-hard-worded figure, I turned from further notice of it in instant disgust. For, as I knew I could talk to be understood, I thought by the same method my writing might be made out as easy and as proper".'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
Samuel Johnson : The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets
'a wet day have finished the life of savage in Johnsons "lives of the poets"'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
James Beresford : The Miseries of Human Life
'I have been dipping into "the miserys of human life" here & there'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
Thomas de Quincey : The London Magazine: Review of Walladmor by Scott
'Lookd over the magaze for amusement [...] the letter on mackadamizing is good - the review on Walladmoor is 30 pages long I wish De Quincey had better subjects for his genius'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Serial / periodical
John Banton : Excursions of Fancy
'Lookd over a new vol of provincial poems by a neighbouring poet Bantums "Excursions of Fancy" and poor fancys I find them' [lists vols by other local poets]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
William Hazlitt : Lectures on the English Poets
'Read Hazlitts "lectures on the poets" [...] he is one of the very best prose writers of the present day [...]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
William Hazlitt : A View of the English Stage
'Continued to read Hazlitt - I like his lectures on the poets better than those on the comic writers and on Shaksperr [.] His "View of the English Stage" is not so good as either [...] His other works I have not seen'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
[n/a] : The London Magazine
'Recievd the "London Magazine" by my friend Henderson who bought if from town with him a very dull no [.] [...] the article on Byron carrys ignorance in the face of it [.]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Serial / periodical
William Hazlitt : Lectures on the English Comic Writers
'Continued to read Hazlitt - I like his lectures on the poets better than those on the comic writers and on Shaksperr [.] His "View of the English Stage" is not so good as either [...] His other works I have not seen'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
Thomas Erskine : Remarks on the Internal Evidence for the Truth
'Got a parcel from London "Eltons Brothers" "Allins Grammar" gifts of the authors: and Esrkines "internal evidences of religion" the gift of Lord Radstock [...] a very sensible book this passage struck me which I first opend - "to walk without God in the world is to walk in sin & sin is the way of danger..."'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Poems on Various Subjects
'Lookd in the poems of Coleridge, Lamb and Loyde - Colridges monody on Chatterton is beautiful but his sonnets are not happy ones they seem to be a labour after exelence which he did not reach [.] some of those by his friend Lloyd are exelent [...] "Craig Millar Castle" and "To November" are the best [...] Lambs best poetry is in "Elia"'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
William Shakespeare : Midsummer Night's Dream
'Read in Shakspear "The Midsummer Nights Dream" for the first time - I have still got 3 parts out of 4 plays to read yet and hope I shall not leave the world without reading them'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
Francis Bacon : Essays
'Read Bacons essay on the idea of compleat garden divided into every month of the year [...] What beautiful essays these are.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
Vicesimus Knox : Essays Moral and Literary
'read some pages in Shakspear - turnd over a few leaves of Knoxes Essays'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
William Shakespeare : Henry The Fifth
'read Shakspears "Henry The Fifth" of which I have always been very fond from almost a boy I first met with it in an odd vol which I got for 6d [...] I can never lay it down till I see the end of it'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
William Shakespeare : Macbeth
'Read "Macbeth" what a soul thrilling power hovers about this tragedy I have read it over about twenty times'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
Thomas Erskine : Remarks on the Internal Evidence
'Read in the afternoon Erskines "Evidence of Revealed Religion" and find in it some of the best reasoning in favour of its object I have ever read...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
William Hazlitt : Characters of Shakespeare's Plays
'Continued to read Hazlitt - I like his lectures on the poets better than those on the comic writers and on Shakspear [.] His "View of the English Stage" is not so good as either [...] His other works I have not seen'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
James Maddock : The Florist's Directory
'lookd into "Maddox on the culture of flowers" and the "Flora Domestica" which with a few improvments and additions woud be one of the most entertaining books ever written - if I live I will write one on the same plan'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
Elizabeth Kent : Flora Domestica
'lookd into "Maddox on the culture of flowers" and the "Flora Domestica" which with a few improvments and additions woud be one of the most entertaining books ever written - if I live I will write one on the same plan'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
[n/a] : Solomon's Song
'Read "Solomons Song" and beautiful as some of the images of that poem are some of them are not recognisable in my judgement above the ridiculous [...] the more I read the scriptures the more I feel astonishment at the sublime images'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
[n/a] : The London Magazine
'Read over the magazine [received from London on Sunday 7 Nov] the review of Lord Byrons conversations is rather entertaining the pretendery letter of James Thompson is a bold lye [letter is actually by Thompson].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Serial / periodical
Robert Southey : The life of Wesley
'read in Southeys "Wesley"'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
Robert Tannahill : Poems and Songs Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
'Read some passages in the poems of Tannahill some of his songs are beautiful particularly "Loudons bonny woods and braes" "We'll meet beside the dusky glen" and "Jessey"'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
[n/a] : Stamford Mercury
'A ryhming school master is the greatest bore in literature the following ridiculous advertisement proves the assertion taken from the "Stamford Mercury" [quotes advert]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
[n/a] : Stamford Mercury
'Newspaper Miracles Wonders Curiositys etc under these heads I shall insert anything I can find worth reading and laughing at' [quotes 2 stories from the 'Stamford Mercury']
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper
John Milton : Paradise Lost
'Lookd into Miltons "Paradise Lost" I once read it thro when I was a boy at the time I liked the "Death of Abel" better [...] I cannot help smiling at my young fancys in those days of happy ignorance'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
James Thomson : The Seasons (Winter)
'Lookd into Thompsons Winter there is a freshness about it I think superior to the others [...] the following minute descriptions are great favourites of mine [...] [he misquotes ll 104-5, 130-31]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
[n/a] : Literary Gazette
'Recieved a letter from Mrs Emmerson and a "Literary Gazette" from somebody in which is a review of an unsuccesful attempt to reach Repulse Bay [...] by Captain Lyon from which the following curious incident is extracted'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
[n/a] : The Iris
'Recieved a news paper from Montgomery in which my poem of the "Vanitys of Life" was inserted with an ingenius and flattering compliment past upon it'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper
Elizabeth Kent : Sylvan Sketches or a Companion to the Park
'Recieved a parcel from Hessey with the "Magazine" & a leaf of the new poems also a present of Miss Kents "Sylvan Sketches" she seems to be a thorough bookmaker'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book, Serial / periodical
[n/a] : Stamford Mercury
[quotes from 4 separate stories] 'Stamford Mercury' '"A black birds nest with four young ones was found a few days ago in Yorkshire" - "Stamford Mercury"'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper
[n/a] : Stamford Mercury
'Saw a reciept to mend broken china in the "Stamford Mercury" [...] news papers have been famous for hyperbole and the "Stamford Mercury" has long been one at the head of the list of extravagance - in an article relating an accident at Drury Lane Theatre is the following'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper
Thomas Tusser : Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry
'Read in old Tusser with whose quaint ryhmes I have often been entertaind [...] he seems to have felt a taste for inclosures and Mavor that busy notemaker and book compiler [...] has added an impertinent note [...] as an echo of feint praise'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
[n/a] : Stamford Mercury
'News paper wonders - "There is now living at Barton an old lady of the name of Faunt who has nearly attaind the great age of 105 years - she has lately cut new teeth to the great surprise of the family" "Stamford Mercury"'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper
Robert Tannahill : Poems and Songs Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
'Read some passages in the poems of Tannahill some of his songs are beautiful particularly "Loudons bonny woods and braes" "We'll meet beside the dusky glen" and "Jessey"'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
[n/a] : London Magazine
'Recieved the April and May ma[ga]zine from London with a letter from Hessey and one from Vandyke [...] the magazine is very dull.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Serial / periodical
[n/a] : Stamford Mercury
'Extracts from the "Stamford Mercury"' [copies two stories]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper
[n/a] : Stamford Mercury
'At a meeting of florists held at the Old Kings Head at Newark last week prizes were adjudged as follows' [quotes results published in 'Stamford Mercury']
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper
[n/a] : Stamford Mercury
'News paper odditys [quotes article on salt mine in Poland] "Stamford Mercury"'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper
William Shakespeare : [unknown]
'read some pages in Shakspear - turnd over a few leaves of knoxes essays'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
Anonymous : Eighteen Sermons Intended to Establish
'Lookd into the two vols of Sermons from Lord R. the texts are well selected and the sermons are plainly and sensibly written they are in my mind much superior to Blairs popular sermons'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
John Curtis : British Entomology ... Insects Found in Great Britain
'Went to Milton saw a fine Edition of Leniuses Botany [...] saw also a beautiful book on insects with the plants they feed on by Curtis'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
[n/a] : Stamford Mercury
'Parish officers are modern savages as the following fact will testifye - Crowland Abbey "Certain surveyors have lately dug up several foundation stones of the Abby [...] for the purpose of repairing the parish roads!!" "Stamford Mercury"'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper
Anna Laetitia Barbauld : Lessons for Children from Two to Three Years Old
'I have been reading over Mrs Barbaulds "Lessons for Childern" to my eldest child who is continually tearing me to read them I find by this that they are particularly suited to the tastes of childern as she is never desirous of hearing anything read a second time but them'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
Richard Watson : An Apology for the Bible, in a Series of Letters
'Recieved a letter & present of books from Lord Radstock containing Hannah Moores "Spirit of Prayer" - Bp Wilsons "Maxims", Burnets "Life of God in the Soul of Man" - "A New Manual of Prayer" and Watsons "Answer to Paine" - a quiet unaffected defence of the Bible [...] I have not read Tom Paine but I have always [...] a low blackguard'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
William Hone : Prospectus for 'The Every-Day Book'
'Had a double Polanthus & single white Hepatica sent me from Stamford round which was rapped a curious prospectus of an "Every day book" by W. Hone. If such a thing was well got up it woud make one of the finest things ever published [...] there is a fine quotation from Herrick for a motto how delightful is the freshness of these old poets it is meeting with green spots in deserts'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Advertisement
[n/a] : The Scientific Receptacle
'Recieved a parcel from Holbeach with a letter and the Scientific Receptacle from J. Savage - they have inserted my poems and have been lavish with branding every corner with "J. Clares" how absurd are the serious meant images or attempts at fine writing in these young writers'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
[n/a] : Stamford Mercury
'"The Lingfield and Crowhurst Choir sung several select pieces from Handel in the cavity of a yew tree [continues for whole of report]" "Stamford Mercury"'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper
[n/a] : Stamford Mercury
'Saw in the Stamford paper that the lost leaf of "Dooms day book" was found and had no time to copy out the account'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper
[n/a] : Stamford Mercury
'A salmon near ['near' in italics] 20 lbs weight ...' 'Stamford Mercury'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper
[n/a] : Stamford Mercury
'The catholics have lost their bill once more [they] shoud when one beholds the following sacred humbugs [...] From "Nugents Travels" [1768][Clare quotes list of relics quoted from Nugents by Stamford Mercury]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper
[n/a] : The Observer
'The following advertisement is from the "Observer" of Sunday May 22 1825. "Just published the speech of his Royal Highness the Duke of York in the house of Lords the 25 April 1825 Printed by J Whittaker [...] in letters of gold [...] 10s/6 sold by Septimus Prowett 23 Old Bond Street Well done Septimus Prowet"'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
unknown : The Struggles of a Senior Wrangler
'Read a continuation of a good paper in the London on "A Poor Students Struggles thro Cambridge" ["The Struggles of a Senior Wrangler"] the rest are moderates among the middlings'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Serial / periodical
Richard Ayton : Essays and Sketches of Character
'Recieved another parcel from Hessey [...] a present of "Aytons Essays" a young writer of great promise which was killed in the bud these essays are excelent and contain a deal More of the Human Heart than an affectedly written book with that title'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
[n/a] : Stamford Mercury
'"A hive of bees natives of New South Wales [...] The bees are very small and have no sting but their honey is peculiarly fine" "Stamford Mercury"'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper
G Gilleade : Allworth Abbey; or Christianity Triumphant
'lent Miss Fanny Knowlton Bloomfields "Hazlewood Hall & Remains" & Aytons "Essays" - Got a look at Gilleads of Spaldings "Alworth Abbey" & I neve[r] saw such a heap of unnatural absurditys & ridiculous attempts at wit & satire strung together in my reading existance'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
[n/a] : Stamford Mercury
'a newspaper lye of the first order - "Mr Gale of Holt in the parish of Bradford Witts has at present a Pear of the jagonel kind in his possession which was taken [...] 49 years ago and is now as sound as the first moment it was gathered[...]" - it must have been a wooden one'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper
William Hone : The Every-Day Book
'Recieved the 28 No of the "Everyday book" in which is inserted a poem of mine'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Serial / periodical
[n/a] : Stamford Mercury
'More wonders from the "Mercury" "A clergyman of the established church name Benson now attracts larger congregations [...] then the celebrated Mr Irving [.] 211 stage coaches pass weekly through Daventry Northamptonshire" "Stamford Mercury"'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper
Daniel Fenning : The universal spelling-book: or, a new and easy guide to the English Language. Containing I Tables of Words [...] V Chronological Tables of the Succession of the Kings of England [...]
'a circumstance occurd which nearly stopd me from writing even for my own amusement borrowing a school book of a companion, having some entertaining things in it both in prose and Verse with an introduction by the compiler, who doubtless like myself knew little about either [...] in this introduction was rules both for writing as well as reading Compositions in prose and verse, were, stumbling on a remark that a person who knew nothing of grammer was not capable of writing a letter nor even a bill of parcels, I was quite in the suds, seeing that I had gone on thus far without learing the first rudiments of doing it properly for I had hardly h[e]ard the name of grammer, while at school ? but as I had an itch for trying at every thing I got hold of I determ[i]ned to try grammer, and for that purpose, by the advice of a friend, bought the "Universal Spelling Book" as the most easy assistant for my starting out, but finding a jumble of words classd under this name and that name and this such a figure of speech and that another hard worded figure I turned from further notice of it in disgust for as I knew I could talk to be understood I thought by the same method my writing might be made out as easy and as proper, so in the teeth of grammer I pursued my literary journey' [In the suds = In the dumps]
