Reverend William Barnes (1801-1886) was an English writer, poet, minister, and philologist. He wrote over 800 poems, some in Dorset dialect and much other work including a comprehensive English grammar quoting from more than 70 different languages. He first contributed the Dorset dialect poems for which he is best known to periodicals, including MacMillan's Magazine. A collection in book form, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, was pub...
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