John Clare: Poems of the Middle Period, 1822-1837

What these two Clarendon volumes do offer that is not in the Tibble/Thornton edition, apart from the subscription lists, is a wealth of manuscript variants, so that we have a much richer sense of the poems and their development. * BARS, no. 20 *
There are still exciting discoveries to be made, then, among the enormous sprawl of Clare's poetry manuscripts, and one is grateful to the Clarendon editors for their continuing Herculean labours in the archive. * BARS, no. 20 *
a remarkable collection of poems ... The retort to any carping about costs is that it is worth every penny; no poet, and certainly not Clare, could ever imagine their every jot and tittle would be so faithfully rescued for posterity. Any and every page is a testament to the patient endeavour, the sheer hard work, of Eric Robinson and his team: this is indeed a labour of love ... the material is all here, so there is no sense of our being denied anything. * Mark Storey, ROES, vol 50, no 200 (1999) *
This ongoing Clarendon edition of Clare's poetry... will come to be seen as one of the greatest editions of the twentieth century. * Greg Crossan, Notes and Queries Vol.47 No.1 *