John Clare: The Trespasser Karin Slater I lit a candle in

I lit a candle in the shoeing shed

hitched across Europe in the 1970s

and in local and national identities in a global context

Pyramid Texts by Gamal al-Ghitani translated by Humphrey Davies

John Clare: The Trespasser Karin Slater I lit a candle inJohn Clare was reputedly a solitary, shy man, at one with nature and the world around him. Although these authors have both published books which indicate otherwise, in this volume they focus on Clare as a difficult and transgressive figure. While he documented and celebrated the country life he valued so highly, he was also a witness to the partial destruction of that life, with the coming of enclosure and increasingly severe penalties for trespass.