In chronological order:
- Frederick Martin, The Life of John Clare, 1865
- J. L. Cherry, Life and Remains of John Clare, 1873
- Heath, Richard (1893). "John Clare" . The English Peasant. London: T. Fisher Unwin. pp. 292–319.
- Norman Gale, Clare's Poems, 1901
- J. W. and Anne Tibble, John Clare - A Life, Oxford University Press, 1932.
- June Wilson, Green Shadows: The Life of John Clare, 1951
- John Barrell, The Idea of Landscape and the Sense of Place, 1730–1840: An Approach to the Poetry of John Clare, Cambridge University Press, 1972
- Edward Bond, The Fool, 1975
- Greg Crossan, A Relish for Eternity: The Process of Divinization in the Poetry of John Clare, 1976, ISBN 978-0773406162
- H. O. Dendurent, John Clare: A Reference Guide, Boston: G. K. Hall, 1978
- Edward Storey, A Right to Song: The Life of John Clare, London: Methuen, 1982, ISBN 0-413-39940-0
- Timothy Brownlow, John Clare and Picturesque Landscape, 1983
- John MacKenna, Clare: a novel, Belfast: The Blackstaff Press, 1993, ISBN 0-85640-467-5 (fictional biography)
- Hugh Haughton, Adam Phillips and Geoffrey Summerfield, John Clare in Context, Cambridge University Press, 1994, ISBN 0-521-44547-7
- Alan Moore, Voice of the Fire (Chapter 10 only), UK: Victor Gollancz
- John Goodridge and Simon Kovesi (eds), John Clare: New Approaches, John Clare Society, 2000
- Arnold Clay, Itching After Rhyme: A Life of John Clare, Parapress Ltd, 2000
- Jonathan Bate, John Clare, London: Picador, 2003
- Alan B. Vardy, John Clare, Politics and Poetry, London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2003
- Iain Sinclair, Edge of The Orison: In the Traces of John Clare's "Journey Out of Essex", Hamish Hamilton, 2005
- John MacKay, Inscription and Modernity: From Wordsworth to Mandelstam, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-253-34749-1.
- David Powell, First Publications of John Clare's Poems, John Clare Society of North America, 2009[44]
- Carry Akroyd, "Natures Powers & Spells": Landscape Change, John Clare and Me, Langford Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-904078-35-7
- Judith Allnatt, The Poet's Wife, Doubleday, 2010 (fiction), ISBN 0-385-61332-6
- Adam Foulds, The Quickening Maze, Jonathan Cape, 2009
- D. C. Moore, Town (Play)[45]
- Sarah Houghton-Walker, John Clare's Religion, Routledge, 2016, ISBN 978-0-754665-14-4[46]
- Adam White, John Clare's Romanticism, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
- Simon Kövesi, John Clare: Nature, Criticism and History, London: Palgrave, 2017, ISBN 978-0-230-27787-8
