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This selection first published in Penguin Books 1990 Reprinted with first line and tide indexes 2000 5
Selection, Introduction and Notes copyright © Geoffrey Summerfield, 1990 All rights reserved
Copyright in the unpublished and in much of the published work of John Clare is owned by Professor Eric Robinson who has together with Oxford University Press authorized this publication. Requests for permission to reproduce any of the poems in this anthology should be addressed to Curtis Brown Group Ltd, 162-168 Regent Street, London WIR STB. The editor and the publishers thank Professor Robinson, the Oxford University Press and Curtis Brown Ltd, London, for particular permission to reproduce the following poems: ‘Summer Evening’, ‘Crows in Spring’, ‘Sunday with Shepherds and Herdboys’, ‘Snow Storm’, ‘To the Snipe’, ‘The Martin’, ‘The Hedgehog’, ‘The Fox’, ‘The Badger’, ‘Dedication to Mary’, ‘I’ve ran the furlong’, ‘The Mores’ (from Seleaed Poems and Prose of JohnClare, Oxford University Press, copyright © Eric Robinson 1967), and ’The Lament of Swordy Well’ (from Oxford Authors John Clare, Oxford University Press, copyright © Eric Robinson 1984).
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