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Birth date
1801
Death date
1886
Country
England
Poems by this Poet
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Dan an' Jeane in the Pump Court
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Winter A-Comen
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The Sister and Brothers
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The Bars on the Ridge
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Vrom Hinton
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Lullaby
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Zickness
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On Seeing Some Very Old Family Portraits in an Ancient Mansion
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The Wold Clock
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Leeburn Mill
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William Barnes was born at Blackmoor Vale in Dorset, the son of a farmer. He took a Bachelor of Divinity degree on a part-time basis at St. John's College, Cambridge, and became a clergyman in 1848. The poems he wrote about his birthplace on themes such as love, natural landscape and regional life brought him a lot of public acclaim. But he also had many other interests, especially languages. Apart from the classical languages, he also learned Welsh, Hindustani, Persian, Hebrew and a handful of European languages. His great interest in different kinds of knowledge made him write on different subjects such as mathematics, astronomy and geography. His real talent, however, lay in exploiting his poetic gift in the writing of folklore, thus setting the stage for people like Thomas Hardy.