RPO -- Selected Poetry of William Barnes (1801-1886)

Selected Poetry of William Barnes (1801-1886)

from Representative Poetry On-line
Prepared by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto
from 1912 to the present and published by the University of Toronto Press from 1912 to 1967.
RPO Edited by Ian Lancashire
A UTEL (University of Toronto English Library) Edition
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries
© 2011, Ian Lancashire for the Department of English, University of Toronto

Index to poems

Notes on Life and Works

Wrigley, Chris. "Barnes, William (1801-1886)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004.

Biographical information

Given name: William
Family name: Barnes
Birth date: 22 February 1801
Death date: 7 October 1886
Nationality: English
Family relations
father: John Barnes
mother: Grace Barnes
Languages
English
French
Italian
Welsh
Russian
Hebrew
Hindustani
Anglo-Saxon
Education
Mullett's school, Sturminster Newton to 1814
Cambridge (B.D.) to 1850
Religion: Christian
Literary period: Victorian
Occupations
Schoolmaster: 1823
Pastor: 1847
Residences
Rushay, Dorset, England: 1801
Dorchester, England: 1818
Wiltshire, England: 1823
Buried at: St Peter Churchyard, Winterborne Came, Dorset
First RPO edition: 1996-2000