John Clare by Himself

This text gathers together all of John Clare’s autobiographical writing. The book extends, corrects and replaces the Autobiographical Writings of John Clare , edited by Eric Robinson (Oxford, 1983). Clare’s Journal is set beside Sketches and Autobiographical Fragments , as well as his Journey Out of Essex . Extracts from his asylum letters are included, his will, and two maps of Clare’s countryside and his Journey .