Poems..

(Perdix Press.) BARNES (William)

Poems..

Selected and edited by Walter Partridge with a preface by Mark Franklin.

Description: 30/100 COPIES signed by Partridge and the illustrator, Robert Tilleard, wood-engraved frontispiece illustration, two further wood-engraved illustrations, title-page with acorn motif, pp. 35, tall 8vo, publisher's chestnut cloth-backed floral decorated paper-covered boards, spine gilt-lettered, mottled fawn slipcase, fine

Publication Details: Sutton Mandeville: Perdix Press, 1981

Notes: Ad-hoc tutor to Thomas Hardy, friend of Tennyson and Gerard Manley Hopkins, mathematician, vegetarian, linguist and wood-engraver, Barnes was much admired. 'There is no doubt that [William Barnes] is the best pastoral poet we possess, the most sincere, the most genuine, the most theocritan; and that the [Dorset] dialect is but a very thin veil hiding from us some of the most delicate and finished verse written in our time.' (Saturday Review, 1886)

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