We talk about two poems by Romantic poet John Clare - "The Gipsies Evening Blaze" and "The Gipsy Camp". Both sonnets discuss the same subject but in very different ways, and give a sense of how Clare himself had to tread an uncertain line as "the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet".

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