Excerpt from The Life of William Barnes: Poet and Philologist

It is this wish that I have tried to fulfil, and have merely given the true events of a pure and simple life, in as plain and unglossed a manner as possible. No criticism of works has been attempted, indeed what has been done so fully and appreciatively by abler hands would be out of place, from a daughter - there is only a slight description of them, and as much of their inner story as I knew.

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