The poet William Barnes died at the age of 85. Here is all you want to know, and more!
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A nineteenth-century English author, poet, and minister, he is most remembered for his 1879 work, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect. Over the course of his career, he published nearly a thousand poems, including such Dorset dialect works as The Love Child.
He was the child of a Dorset farmer.