I voted for John Clare. I was just finishing
The Shepherd’s Life by James Rebanks, which whetted my curiosity about Clare's poetry. Rebanks mentioned Clare near the close of his book:
"This is an ancient, hard-earned, local kind of freedom that was stolen from people elsewhere, the kind of freedom that the nineteenth-century ‘peasant poet’ John Clare wrote about. He lamented the changes in the North-amptonshire landscape he loved because of enclosure. He saw the disconnection that was being created between people like him and the land, something that has only got worse with each passing year since then."