hi Jesse I always had trouble reading Barnes but recently found in the
poetry library RFH london --a cassette which brought it alive for me--'the
young rhymer snubbed ' hard stuff cheers patrick mc
It smacks of a lost period --I did hear one time Brenda Wooton !!
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Subject: I Love William Barnes!
> Just skimming through the list on my way to a meeting and found ref. to
one
> of my favorite poets! Thank you! I've slipped the Penguin selected in my
> pocket and will have something to smile about during what promises to be
> seven hours' worth of hair splitting in Japanese. Perhaps we could open a
> William Barnes thread? Not only was he a remarkable poet, but (according
> to everything I've read) a genuinely kind man. Has anyone read the
> biography of Barnes written by--I believe--his daughter? He was an
> autodidact and a polymath and outlived all those mad bad poet types by
many
> a year. Jesse
>
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