biography
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Hawker, R(obert) S(tephen)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1803–75)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Plymouth, Devon, SW England, UK. He studied at Oxford, and in 1834 became vicar of Morwenstow, on the Cornish coast, where he shared many of the superstitions of his people. He was devoted to animals, many of which accompanied him to church. His first volume Tendrils by Reuben appeared anonymously when he was only 18. A local newspaper published his best-known ballad, ‘Song of the Western Men’, in 1826. Other volumes include Records of the Western Shore (1832), Cornish Ballads (1869), and Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall (1870). |
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