Compare and contrast Childhood by John Clare and Follower by Seamus Heaney

... Compare and contrast "Childhood" by John Clare and "Follower" by Seamus Heaney. John Clare was born in 1793 and died in 1864. He was born in the countryside and remained a countryman all his life. He was a son of a labourer, his mother was illiterate and his father could barely read or write. His family were desperately poor and he never travelled far from home. His poem Childhood is autobiographical and reminiscent on his childhood memories. His first anthology was called "Poems descriptive of rural life and scenery" and it was very well received but later anthologies weren't as enthusiastically received. Seamus Heaney was born on the 13th April 1939 in Bellaghy, South Derry. He was the oldest of nine children and grew up on a farm. He studied English at Queens and went on to teach in Belfast. He had a distinguished academic career; his first anthology was

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