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William Barnes (1801–1886)
Barnes, William. An English poet and philologist; born in Dorsetshire, Feb. 22, 1800; died in Winterbourne Came, in Oct. 1886. He wrote many books on philology; and three series of ‘Poems of Rural Life in the Dorsetshire Dialect’ (London, 1844, 1846, and 1863), and ‘Poems of Rural Life’ (1866). His “fad” was the disuse of all but the Anglo-Saxon elements of the English language. (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).