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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
John Clare
Born: July 13, 1793
Died: May 20, 1864 (aged 70)
Bio: John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption.
Known for:
- Poems by John Clare
- I Am: The Selected Poetry of John Clare
- Northborough sonnets
- Poems Chiefly From Manuscript
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