"Barnes is a perfect artist. It is as if Dorset life and Dorset landscape had taken flesh and blood in the man" - Gerald Manley Hopkins
Respected by his peers at the time as a poet, Barnes, born in 1801, was also a talented engraver, mathematician and musician. A consummate linguist, he was passionate about the English language and honouring its purity from early Anglo-Saxon origins; he commonly wrote poems in the Dorset dialect. He died an old man in 1886.
This collection contains Thomas Hardy's farewell elegy and nine poems by William Barnes including The Turnen Style, Woak Hill and Linden Lea.
Unfortuntely, the binding staples have rusted and affected the centre page (see the 3rd image in the gallery); the remainder of the publication is undamaged.
William Barnes - Seconds
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