Length of Road
In 1841 the ''peasant poet'' John Clare escaped from an asylum in Epping Forest, where he had been kept for four years, and walked over eighty miles home to Northamptonshire. Suffering from poor mental health, Clare was attempting to return to his idealized first love, Mary, unaware that she had died three years earlier.
In 1995, with his life in crisis and his own mental health fragile, Robert dec...
In 1841 the ''peasant poet'' John Clare escaped from an asylum in Epping Forest, where he had been kept for four years, and walked over eighty miles home to Northamptonshire. Suffering from poor mental health, Clare was attempting to return to his idealized first love, Mary, unaware that she had died three years earlier.
In 1995, with his life in crisis and his own mental health fragile, Robert dec...
