Which English poet, known as the 'Northamptonshire Peasant Poet', was committed to an asylum from 1837 until his death?
"the Three Counties Asylum. This became Fairfield Hospital in 1960 and it finally closed in 1999. Patients from the then Soke of Peterborough, including the ""Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"" John Clare, were committed to Northampton General Lunatic Asylum. In 1876, Northampton County Lunatic Asylum (later Northampton Mental Hospital, then St Crispin's Hospital which closed in 1995) opened for pauper patients and the original general asylum changed its name to Northampton General Lunatic Asylum for the Middle and Upper Classes. This became St Andrew's Hospital for mental diseases in 1887. During the 1960s, Fulbourn Hospital became internationally prominent for its pioneering therapeutic"
"in which all excitement is as much as possible avoided, and no care omitted"": it is not clear whether he was influenced by the earlier work of Robert Gardiner Hill. When the poet John Clare entered the asylum in 1841, Prichard encouraged him to continue his writing. Prichard resigned from the Northampton asylum in 1845 following allegations of professional misconduct. He opened a private asylum at Abington Manor near Northampton. Prichard died in 1847. The asylum was taken over by his cousin, Thomas Prichard (d.1878) who also married his widow (d.1852). She had been matron of the Northampton asylum and"
"he would have encountered poet John Clare, whose behaviour became so erratic that he was removed to the asylum in 1837. William Morris, artist, writer and socialist, was born in Walthamstow in 1834, and spent his early years in what was then rural Essex, close to the outlying sections of the forest. Arthur Morrison, ""the English Zola"", lived successively at Chingford, Loughton, and High Beach in the forest, and – particularly in ""To London Town"" – the forest is used as a contrast to the East London deprivation he wrote about. Horace Newte, his contemporary and friend, lived at Loughton"
"Frank the Poet Frank the Poet (ca. 1810–1861) (real name Francis MacNamara) was a convict, transported to New South Wales from Cashel, County Tipperary, Ireland, who composed improvised verse expressing the convict's point of view. In 1832 he was convicted of larceny, and sentenced to seven years transportation. He often absconded and received an extended sentence as well as floggings and other punishments, and was finally sent to the dreaded Port Arthur in Van Diemen's Land. He received a ticket of leave in 1847 and his freedom in 1849, after which there is little record of his life. His verse"
"while the novelist Hammond Innes (1913–98) was born in Horsham. In addition there are writers, who while they were not born in Sussex had a strong connection. This includes William Blake (1757–1827), who moved to Felpham in 1800 on the advice of Sussex poet William Hayley (1745-1820). Tried and cleared of the crime of sedition at the county court of Quarter Sessions in 1804, Blake returned to London later that year. One of Victorian England's most famous poets Alfred Tennyson (1809–92) spent his summers, away from the holiday crowds of the Isle of Wight, at Aldworth House, Blackdown, which he"
"dramatists contained passages which might be regarded as seditious. He therefore desired to be appointed censor of all plays brought on the stage. This was regarded as a ""suspected"" libel, and a warrant was issued for the arrest of the printer. Amhurst surrendered himself instead, and suffered a short imprisonment. On the overthrow of the government in 1742 the opposition leaders did nothing for the useful editor of the ""Craftsman"", and this neglect is said to have hastened Amhurst's death, which took place at Twickenham. Nicholas Amhurst Nicholas Amhurst (16 October 1697 – 27 April 1742) was an English poet"
"William Wordsworth (1770–1850), and the other Lake Poets, while the poet William Barnes (1801–1886) is seen as primarily a Dorset poet, especially because of his use of Dorset dialect. John Clare (1793 – 1864) was commonly known as ""the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"". His formal education was brief, his other employment and class-origins were lowly. Clare resisted the use of the increasingly standardised English grammar and orthography in his poetry and prose, alluding to political reasoning in comparing ""grammar"" (in a wider sense of orthography) to tyrannical government and slavery, personifying it in jocular fashion as a ""bitch"". He wrote in"
"the Gatehouse at the Palace of Westminster. He was released within a year, but in 1637 he was again arrested, and seems to have spent the rest of his life in prison. He was, along with other Catholic priests, condemned to death in 1641, but the conviction was never executed, and he appears to have died in prison in 1650. Abbot's best known work is his poem ""Devout Rhapsodies"" (2 vols., 1647), about the war in heaven and the temptation and fall of man. The work can be seen as a precursor of Milton's ""Paradise Lost"". John Abbot (poet) John"
"New South Wales, the ""Western Post"" on 31 August, the ""Empire"" on 4 September and the ""Maitland Mercury"" on 7 September. On 5 August 2012 ABC Radio National broadcast ""Frank the Poet - A Convict's Tour to Hell"". Frank the Poet Frank the Poet (ca. 1810–1861) (real name Francis MacNamara) was a convict, transported to New South Wales from Cashel, County Tipperary, Ireland, who composed improvised verse expressing the convict's point of view. In 1832 he was convicted of larceny, and sentenced to seven years transportation. He often absconded and received an extended sentence as well as floggings and other"
"of money. But he still had enough to retire in 1841 and settle on land he had bought at Great Houghton, near Barnsley. There he lived quietly to see the Corn Laws repealed in 1846, dying in 1849 aged 68. He was buried in the churchyard of All Saints Church, Darfield. Earlier in his life, Elliott had written ""A Poet's Epitaph"", setting out the poetic programme for which he wished to be remembered: The news of his death was now met by poetical tributes from other writers. The Chartist poet George Tweddell (1823–1903) devoted three sonnets to him. Another Chartist"
"D. Gwenallt Jones Gwenallt (the bardic name of David James Jones, 18 May 1899 – 24 December 1968), poet, critic, and scholar, was one of the most important figures of 20th-century Welsh-language literature. He created his bardic name by transposing Alltwen, the name of the village across the river from his birthplace. Gwenallt was born in Pontardawe, Glamorganshire, the eldest son of Thomas ‘Ehedydd’ Jones and his wife Mary. Conscripted into the Army in 1917 during World War I, he declared himself a conscientious objector and was imprisoned at Wormwood Scrubs before being transferred to Princetown Work Centre in the"
"Thomas Shimmin Thomas Shimmin (1800 – c.1876–1879) was a rag gatherer and poet nicknamed ""Tom the Dipper"" who lived in the Isle of Man. He sang and wrote poetry in the Manx language and in English. His poems include, "" Yn Coayl jeh'n Lillee"" (""The Loss of the Lily""), ""Happy Marriage of the Prince of Wales"", and ""The Royal Manx Railway, or £5 of wit for a penny"". He was twice sentenced for robbery, first in 1843 and second in 1851. In 1843, he was sentenced to transportation to Australia, but was pardoned and released in July 1847. He also"
"for several years during World War I, as tenant of Lollingdon Farm, at the foot of the Berkshire Downs. He was Poet Laureate from 1936 to his death in 1967 and is most famous for a series of poems and sonnets entitled ""Lollingdon Downs"" and his poem ""Sea-Fever"", which has been set to music by John Ireland. The grave of novelist Dame Agatha Christie is in the churchyard of St Mary's. She lived with her second husband, archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan, at Winterbrook House, in the north of the parish, from about 1934 and died there in 1976. She and"
"stream running through the Parsonage House of his childhood, in Basingstoke. The Loddon rises west of Basingstoke and is fed by springs in the town; it joins the Kennet at Reading. Thomas Warton Thomas Warton (9 January 1728 – 21 May 1790) was an English literary historian, critic, and poet. From 1785 to 1790 he was the Poet Laureate of England. He is sometimes called ""Thomas Warton the younger"" to distinguish him from his father ""Thomas Warton the elder"". His most famous poem remains ""The Pleasures of Melancholy"", a representative work of the Graveyard poets. Warton was born in Basingstoke,"
"My limbs I indolently throw, And leave the world and care behind. Here blest with peace, with ease and health, Life’s toilsome scenes, O let me shun! Forego ambition, fame and wealth, To bask me in the evening sun. And as this gentle bosom'd stream With silent lapse serenely flows, Smiles and reflects the golden beam, Ere modest evening's glories close; So let me, in life's tranquil evening, find alm, soft, unruffl'd joys – the sunshine of the mind! William Newton (poet) William Newton (1750–1830), a labouring class poet often referred to as 'the Peak Minstrel', was born near Abney,"
"corn blowing in the wind in allusion to the ""Corn Law Rhymes"". That same year, the new Wetherspoons pub in Rotherham was named The Corn Law Rhymer and in March 2013 a blue plaque commemorating the poet was placed on the town's medical walk-in centre, marking the site of the iron foundry where he was born. Ebenezer Elliott Ebenezer Elliott (17 March 1781 – 1 December 1849) was an English poet, known as the ""Corn Law rhymer"" for his leading the fight to repeal the Corn Laws which were causing hardship and starvation among the poor. Though a factory owner"
"U. A. Fanthorpe, Harry Whalley and Matt Simpson. Contributions relevant to Nicholson's life and work are invited by the editor, Antoinette Fawcett. Norman Nicholson Norman Cornthwaite Nicholson (8 January 1914 – 30 May 1987), was an English poet associated with the Cumbrian town of Millom. His poetry is noted for its local concerns, straightforward language, and elements of common speech. Although it is poetry for which he is chiefly known, he wrote many works in other forms: novels, plays, essays, topography and criticism. Nicholson lived in 14 St George's Terrace, a Victorian terraced house and shop in the small industrial"
"17th century Scottish poet William Drummond of Hawthornden was buried within its grounds. Sir John Lauder, 1st Baronet of Fountainhall was born at Melville Mill, Lasswade, in 1595; and the present 18th-century Barony House was known as Lasswade Cottage when Sir Walter Scott rented it (1798-1804). He was visited here by the writer James Hogg (the 'Ettrick Shepherd') and the Wordsworths. Thomas de Quincey, author of ""Confessions of an English Opium Eater"", also lived in nearby Polton for some years, from 1843, in the cottage now known as de Quincey Cottage. The Scottish landscape artist William McTaggart moved to Lasswade"
"Tower in Ballymun which has since been demolished. Plunkett barracks in the Curragh Camp, County Kildare is also named after him. The beloved Irish ballad ""Grace"", written by Seán and Frank O'Meara, is a fictional monologue of Plunkett expressing his love to Grace and his love for the Cause of Irish Freedom in the small hours before his execution. Joseph Plunkett Joseph Mary Plunkett (Irish: ""Seosamh Máire Pluincéid"", 21 November 1887 – 4 May 1916) was an Irish nationalist, republican, poet, journalist, revolutionary and a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising. Plunkett was born at 26 Upper Fitzwilliam Street in"
"William Alabaster William Alabaster (also Alablaster, Arblastier) (27 February 1567buried 28 April 1640) was an English poet, playwright, and religious writer. He became a Roman Catholic convert in Spain when on a diplomatic mission as chaplain. His religious beliefs led him to be imprisoned several times; eventually he gave up Catholicism, and was favoured by James I. He received a prebend in St Paul's Cathedral, London, and the living of Therfield, Hertfordshire. He died at Little Shelford, Cambridgeshire. He was born at Hadleigh, Suffolk, the son of Roger Alabaster of the cloth merchant family from Hadleigh in Suffolk, and Bridget"
"John Abbot (poet) John Abbot (1587/1588 – c. 1650) was an English Roman Catholic clergyman and poet. Abbot's birthplace is uncertain, but may have been London or Leicester. He is believed to be the nephew both of George Abbot, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Robert Abbot, the bishop of Salisbury. He was thus from a strongly Protestant family. After being educated at Balliol College, Oxford, he travelled to the continent where he converted to Roman Catholicism. On returning to England he was in Jesuit orders for a while, before working as a secular priest. In 1635 he was imprisoned in"
"Cædmon Cædmon (; ""fl. c."" AD 657–684) is the earliest English (Northumbrian) poet whose name is known. An Anglo-Saxon who cared for the animals at the double monastery of Streonæshalch (Whitby Abbey) during the abbacy (657–680) of St. Hilda (614–680), he was originally ignorant of ""the art of song"" but learned to compose one night in the course of a dream, according to the 8th-century historian Bede. He later became a zealous monk and an accomplished and inspirational Christian poet. Cædmon is one of twelve Anglo-Saxon poets identified in medieval sources, and one of only three of these for whom"
"William Newton (poet) William Newton (1750–1830), a labouring class poet often referred to as 'the Peak Minstrel', was born near Abney, in the parish of Eyam, Derbyshire, on 28 November 1750. He was well regarded by other more notable writers and made his fortune as owner of Cressbrook Mill, near Tideswell. He died on 3 November 1830. Newton was born at Cockey Farm near Abney. He was a carpenter's son and, after attending a dame school, followed his father into that trade. He soon showed mechanical skill in constructing spinning-wheels, and was apprenticed for seven years as machinery carpenter in"
"Ramsay in Virginia Woolf's ""To The Lighthouse"". Rudyard Kipling wrote poetry in support of the British cause in the Boer War, including the well known ""Lichtenberg"", which is about a combatant's death in a foreign land. Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, and others wrote also poems relating to the Boer War. Hardy's poems include ""Drummer Hodge"",and ""The Man He Killed"". '""Swinburne regularly donated work to the papers to rouse the spirit, from 'Transvaal', with the infamous closing line, 'Strike, England, and strike home', to 'The Turning of the Tide'."" The major novelist and poet Thomas Hardy (1840 – 1928) wrote a number"
"Winterborne Farringdon, Dorset, from 1862 to his death. Shortly before his death he was visited at Came Rectory by Thomas Hardy and Edmund Gosse; in a letter, Gosse wrote that Barnes was ""dying as picturesquely as he lived"": Barnes first contributed the Dorset dialect poems for which he is best known to periodicals, including Macmillan's Magazine; a collection in book form ""Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect"", was published in 1844. A second collection ""Hwomely Rhymes"" followed in 1858, and a third collection in 1863; a combined edition appeared in 1879. A ""translation"", ""Poems of Rural Life in"
"Wordsworth."" Abbott died in Darlington in 1854. Thomas Eastoe Abbott Thomas Eastoe Abbott (born 23 November 1786, baptised 29 November 1786 – 18 February 1854) was an English poet. Abbott was born and baptised in East Dereham, Norfolk, the son of John Abbott and Susannah Eastoe, who married in East Dereham on 13 November 1777. He worked for the Inland Revenue for many years, and was a warden of the Royal Free Grammar School in Darlington. His poems were described by William Hylton Dyer Longstaffe as ""written with great simplicity of language, full of genuine patriotism and Christianity; some of"
"ashore to the Netherlands, where he was interned. Most of his poems were written in a long period of recovery from his injuries, which left him totally disabled. He lived on a disability pension for the rest of his life. Branford stopped writing poetry in 1923, disillusioned with the prospects for future peace. He remarried in 1937, his second wife was his cousin Margaret Branford, the playwright daughter of John Branford. Frederick Victor Branford Frederick Victor Branford (1892–1941) was a British poet, known for verse of World War I and the years after. Born Frederick Victor Rubens Branford Powell, the"
"listed by date of delivery, with date of first publication given separately if different. ""Selected Prose"", edited by John Carter, Cambridge University Press, 1961 A. E. Housman Alfred Edward Housman (; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems ""A Shropshire Lad"". Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the poems wistfully evoke the dooms and disappointments of youth in the English countryside. Their beauty, simplicity and distinctive imagery appealed strongly to Edwardian taste, and to many early"
"97). One of these, ""The Backwardness of the Present Spring Accounted For, May 5th, 1782"" (p. 110), has also been attributed to Anna Seward. Poems include; In 1830, two volumes were published which made available the many poems not published during Mundy's lifetime. Finally, in 1851, William Mundy paid for a memorial window to his grandfather to be installed in Markeaton church. Francis Noel Clarke Mundy Francis Noel Clarke Mundy 1739 – 1815 was an English poet. His most noted work was written to defend Needwood Forest which was enclosed at the beginning of the 19th century. He was the"
"Tom Lovatt-Williams Tom Lovatt-Williams, often known as T. Lovatt Williams, (28 May 1897 – 22 September 1986) was an English poet and writer about railways and nature topics. His best-known poem, ""Oxford"", was broadcast several times on the BBC programme ""Poetry Please"", and is included in the published anthology of favourite poems from that programme. His novel ""The Gentle Years"" was read on the BBC's Book at Bedtime by Richard Harris. What was not publicised at the time was that it was based on his childhood experiences at Ellesmere, near Oswestry, where he was born. He was a regular contributor"
"held until his death in 1846, but he resided mainly in Wales. Although Evans was ordained, he came to public attention as a poet rather than as a priest. He served briefly as chaplain of the Royal Military Asylum in Northampton, but resigned due to ill-health and returned home to his parents in Wales. He had no clerical appointments thereafter. In 1819, he was involved with the Dyfed Cambrian Society's attempt to revive the eisteddfod, and was also elected as poet to the London-based Gwyneddigion Society. Four years later, in 1823, he won two major poetry prizes at the Carmarthen"
"of his published books. Later he relied on the sale of poems to newspapers, journals and magazines, but was rarely able to keep a roof over his head, and in a letter to the New York Evening Post was described as ""a poetic scintillator of some what odd fancies, who kept the town laughing while he was sometimes starving."" He is described as often being reduced to sleeping between two graves in Trinity churchyard, and surviving on crackers and milk. He drowned on March 5, 1842, in a cell of the city prison by water from an open faucet. A"
"admired by the Suffolk-born painter John Constable, who used couplets from it as tags for two of his paintings: ""A Ploughing Scene"" (shown at the Royal Academy in 1814) and ""A Harvest Field, Reapers, Gleaners"" (shown at the British Institution in 1817), which he marked as derived from ""Bloomfield's poem"". It was also admired by Robert Southey, a Romantic poet and future poet laureate. While this success helped to reduce his poverty for a while, it also took him away from his work. As a result, the Duke of Grafton, who lived at Euston Hall near the village of Bloomfield's"