The Poetry of William Barnes. [With a tailpiece engraving by Thomas Bewick]

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Cockerell marbled wrappers, printed paper label. Edition limited to 95 numbered copies. "Unlike the bucolic poets of old time, Mr. Barnes does not merely use the beauties of nature as a background, reserving the whole front for the rustic characters, their manners, their emotions, and their simplicities. Moved by the pervading instinct of the nineteenth century, he gives us whole poems of still life, brief and unaffected, but realistic as a Dutch picture. In these the slow green river Stour, with its deep pools whence the trout leaps to the May-fly undisturbed by anglers, is found to be the dearest river of his memories, and the inspirer of some of his happiest effusions . . ." A review of Barnes's Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect (Kegan Paul, 1879), first printed, anonymously, in The New Quarterly Magazine, October 1879: "According to his bibliographer R.L. Purdy, this is the only book review Hardy ever wrote" (Textual Note). Halliwell A65. N° de ref. del artículo TR100017

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