William Barnes

William Barnes was an English poet, clergyman, and philologist of the Victorian era, renowned for his dialect poetry written in the Dorset dialect. His works capture the rural life, landscapes, and speech of his native county. Biografía ↓Más ↓

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The Young that Died in Beauty

If souls should only sheen so bright In heaven as in e’thly light, An’ nothen better wer the cease, How comely still, in sheape an’ feace, Would many reach thik happy pleace, - The hopevul souls that in their prime Ha’ seem’d a-took avore their time, - The young that died in beauty. But when woone’s lim’s ha’ lost their strangth A-tweilen drough a lifetime’s langth, An’ over cheaks a-growen wold The slowly-weasten years ha’ roll’d The deep’nen wrinkle’s hollow vwold; When life is ripe, then death do call Vor less ov thought, than when do vall On young vo’ks in their beauty.

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William Barnes was an English poet, clergyman, and philologist, born in 1801 in Dorset. He served as a curate and later rector, and he was also a schoolmaster. He wrote much of his poetry in the Dorset dialect, which he championed as a pure form of English. His first collection, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, was published in 1844. His poems often depict the rhythms and routines of rural existence, including farming, customs, and natural cycles. Imagery in his work draws heavily from the Dorset landscape, with its fields, trees, and changing seasons. Stylistically, his verse is marked by simplicity, musicality, and a faithful rendering of local speech. His work is considered an important record of a vanishing dialect and rural way of life. He was a contemporary of Thomas Hardy, who admired his poetry. Barnes's poetry remains valued for its linguistic authenticity and its affectionate, unromanticized portrayal of country folk.

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