biography
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| lived:
| (1793–1864)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Helpston, Cambridgeshire, EC England, UK. Though almost without schooling, he began to cultivate verse writing, and his Poems Descriptive of Rural Life (1820) and Shepherd's Calendar (1827) had a good reception. Despite some patronage, he was forced to live in poverty. Pronounced insane in 1837, he spent the last 23 years of his life in an asylum at Northampton, where he wrote some of his best poetry. He is appreciated for his highly personal evocations of landscape and for his lament at the death of an earlier rural England and a vanished innocence. |
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