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William Barnes

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Profession
Poet
Died
Oct 7, 1886
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Born in
England
About
A nineteenth-century English author, poet, and minister, he is most remembered for his 1879 work, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect. Over the course of his career, he published nearly a thousand poems, including such Dorset dialect works as The Love Child.
Family
He was the child of a Dorset farmer.

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