
Heres a virtual movie of William Barnes (1801 - 1886) Reading one of his rural Dialect poems from his home county of Doset southwest England. The poem was written around 1863. The Humstrum is a crude home made fiddle rather like a cigar box fiddle. William Barnes (22 February 1801 7 October 1886) was an English writer, poet, minister, and philologist. He wrote over 800 poems, some in Dorset ... more Heres a virtual movie of William Barnes (1801 - 1886) Reading one of his rural Dialect poems from his home county of Doset southwest England. The poem was written around 1863. The Humstrum is a crude home made fiddle rather like a cigar box fiddle. William Barnes (22 February 1801 7 October 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 was born at Rushay in the parish of Bagber, Dorset, the son of a farmer. After being a solicitor's clerk and for a while keeping a school at Mere in Wiltshire, he was ordained into the Church of England in 1847, taking a BD degree from St John's College, Cambridge, in 1851.[1] He served curacies at Whitcombe, Dorset, 1847-52, and again from 1862. Between 1860-62 he held a curacy at Rotherham in Yorkshire. He became rector of Winterborne Came with Winterbourne Farringdon, Dorset, from 1862-86. He first contributed the Dorset dialect poems for which he is best known to <b>...</b>
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