13th July 1793, birth of English poet John Clare. The son of a farm labourer, Clare is best known for poems of the English countryside and despair at its destruction during the industrial revolution. Increasingly throughout his life on the verge of poverty, Clare struggled with increasing depression and eventual descent into mania for which he began to believe that he was the fellow poet Lord Byron, and also William Shakespeare. First voluntarily entering an asylum in 1837, he would spend the rest of his life in various asylums dying in 1864. Tarot card shown is from the historically inspired ofgraveconcern Industrial Sublime Tarot. 1760 - 1848. Prints of the cards can be found for sale at: www.ofgraveconcern.com/industrialsublimetarot1760-1848 Follow @ofgrave.concern for more tales and original inspired art from history. #johnclare #johnclarepoetry #romanticism #lyricalballads #romanticpoetry #18thcentury #18thcenturyhistory #19thcentury #19thcenturyhistory #19thcenturypoetry #naturepoetry #naturepoems #poetsandwriters #englishpoets #lordbyron #williamshakespeare #insaneasylum #williamwordsworth #samueltaylorcoleridge #19thcenturyromanticism #tarotart #tarotartist #tarotillustration #tarotillustrations #englishcountryside https://www.instagram.com/p/CRZOB80lRd5/?utm_medium=tumblr
