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The Life Of William Barnes, Poet And Philologist

By Leader Scott
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By Leader Scott
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Leader Scott's The Life Of William Barnes, Poet And Philologist offers a vivid, humane portrait of a Dorset poet whose devotion to dialect made language itself a subject of verse and study. A life measured in language. As a Victorian literary biography, Scott combines clear narrative with close readings of Barnes's verse alongside informed accounts of his linguistic work, placing him among nineteenth-century poets and early English philologists. Scott charts the poet's attention to rural sp...

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