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Hailed as one of England’s great 19th century romantic poets, John Clare was born on 13 July 1793 and lived in a tiny row of whitewashed thatched cottages in the Cambridgeshire village of Helpston.

Living in this same cottage for almost forty years, John Clare began the early part of his life toiling in the surrounding fields and villages, working as ploughboy, potboy, lime burner and gardener. Teaching himself to read and write, John Clare published his first book of poems in 1820. Achieving overnight literary acclaim, he was known as the ‘peasant poet’ because of his rurally themed works.