William Barnes

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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). Zusammenfassung 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).

Product details

• Authors: William Barnes, Andrew Motion, Sir Andrew Motion
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.04.2007
• EAN: 9780571236657
• ISBN: 978-0-571-23665-7
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 120 mm x 200 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Poetry; Poet to Poet; Poet to Poet; POETRY
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Poetry by individual poets, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Countryside; Landscape; Poet to Poet