Clare looking back at the summer of when he was 13, and the next bit is
pertinent, about most of winter gone missing:
I expressd my supprise at seeing such a fine poem so carelessly handld, most
part of Winter being gone, but the owner only laughed at me and said it was
reckoned nothing of by himself or friends
and then he goes to buy a copy ("teazing" the money from his father) and
reads it "nestled in a lawn at the wall side" !!!
The "John Clare By Himself" book is really well edited and put together, I
think, it reads coherently as an assemblage.
edmund
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