The People's Poet : William Barnes of Dorset

The People's Poet : William Barnes of Dorset

Alan Chedzoy

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FörlagThe History Press
ISBN9780752472409

Born the child of an agricultural labourer in Dorset's Blackmore Vale, by self-education William Barnes (1801-1886) rose to be a lawyer's clerk, a schoolmaster, a much-loved clergyman, and a scholar who could read over seventy languages. He also became the finest example of an English poet writing i