 John Clare was born in a poor farming family.In 1820 he had published his first poetry book which won him the epithet of "Northamptonshire Peasant Poet".In 1836 he started having memory lapses and the next year he voluntarily got admitted in Dr Allen's asylum and stayed there until he ran away in 1841 and went on his four-day walk from Essex to Werrington near Peterborough.