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William Barnes was born in 1801 near Sturminster Newton in Dorset, of a farming family. He learned Greek, Latin and Music, taught himself wood- engraving, and in 1823 became a schoolmaster in Mere. Among his best-known books of poetry are Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect (1844) and Hwomely Rhymes (1859).
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- Released
- 2007
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- Title
- William Barnes
- Language
- English
- Authors
- William Barnes
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Released
- 2007
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0571236650
- ISBN13
- 9780571236657
- Description
- William Barnes was born in 1801 near Sturminster Newton in Dorset, of a farming family. He learned Greek, Latin and Music, taught himself wood- engraving, and in 1823 became a schoolmaster in Mere. Among his best-known books of poetry are Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect (1844) and Hwomely Rhymes (1859).