Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry
Festival
Production
Information
The Shakespeare Institute,
21st July 1982
Performers
Estelle Kohler
Michael Pennington
Ronald Blythe
(The 49th
Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival brochure): “John Clare (1793-1864) has
gradually emerged as the great poet of rural England. If our fields could speak
it would be his language. Lyricist, outcast, naturalist, lover, historian,
Clare remains unique, and we catch his voice in the work of today’s poets. This
programme has been compiled for the festival by Ronald Blythe, the
distinguished country writer and President of the John Clare Society.”