John Clare Poems
- The Lifetime Published
Poetry
The Village Minstrel
Clare’s second volume was published in 1821, soon after the fourth edition
of Poems Descriptive. It
did not enjoy sufficiently good sales to justify a second edition, but it was
reissued several years later. It was
published in two volumes, the first of which contained an engraving of the
Hilton portrait of Clare as a frontispiece.
When the book was reissued, an engraving of Clare’s cottage in
Helpstone, added as a frontispiece to the second volume, was the only
alteration.