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John Clare: "I Am" (1970)

A film biography by David Jones with Freddie Jones as John Clare "I am - yet what I am, none cares or knows" (John Clare) John Clare (1792-1864), farm labourer, had three obsessions: his youthful love for Mary Joyce, the countryside of his native Northamptonshire, and the need to celebrate both in his poetry. Clare cracked under the increasing strain of poverty and neglect, and spent the last 23 years of his life in Northampton General Lunatic Asylum. He imagined himself to be Lord Byron, a bigamist, and a prize-fighter; but the poems of his madness are perhaps the most remarkable he ever wrote.

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Cast List

Freddie Jones

John Clare

Gerald Lawson

Parker, Clare's Father

Elizabeth Croft

Anne, Clare's Mother

Martin Howells

Young Clare

Sharon Gurney

Mary Joyce

Jenny Heslewood

Patty Clare

Jonathan Dennis

Marquis of Exeter

Brian Tully

Taylor, Clare's Publisher

Patrick Stewart

Cyrus Redding

Mary Griffiths

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