William Barnes by Sir Andrew Motion

William Barnes by Sir Andrew Motion

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).

Andrew Motion was UK Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009, is co-founder of the online Poetry Archive, and has written acclaimed biographies of Philip Larkin and John Keats among others. His memoir of childhood, In the Blood, was published in 2006, and its sequel, Sleeping on Islands: A Life in Poetry, appeared alongside Selected Poems: 1977-2022 in 2023. He is Homewood Professor in the Arts at Johns Hopkins University, and lives in Baltimore.

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ISBN 13	9780571236657
ISBN 10	0571236650
Title	William Barnes
Author	Sir Andrew Motion
Series	Poet To Poet
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Faber & Faber
Year published	2007-04-05
Number of pages	144
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