Author

Publication

1984 - Unicorn Press, Greensboro, North Carolina

Language

English

Word Count

27,250 words, Guess

Page Count

109 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-10087775165X
  • ISBN-100877751668
  • ISBN-100877751641
  • ISBN-139780877751656
  • ISBN-139780877751663
and 8 more
  • ISBN-139780877751649
  • Goodreads3855647
  • Library of Congress Control Number84016421
  • OCLC Control Number11044805
  • Better World Books9780877751656
  • Better World Books9780877751663
  • Better World BooksO9-ATM-372
  • Open LibraryOL2853997M

Classifications

  • DDC821/.8
  • LCCPS3566.E756 H3 1984
  • LCCPS3566.E756H3 1984

Description

'Hawker' was awarded the Poetry Society of America's Alice Faye di Castagnola Prize. Robert Stephen Hawker (1803-1875) was Vicar of Morwenstowe in Cornwall, England. He lived for over forty years in a wild and desolate parish near the high jagged cliffs of north Cornwall, a coast noted for its shipwrecks. Hawker, poet, essayist and author of the song 'Trelawny', the unofficial Cornish national anthem, was obsessed with rescuing drowned sailors. He dressed eccentrically, claimed to believe in mermaids and demons, took opium in later life, and left a body of writing and legend behind him from which Peters has drawn one of his unique "voice portraits." "Eccentric Cornish vicar Hawker has found an ideal biographer in Peters, whose tough-tender 'voice portrait' eloquently captures the eloquent mind of this forgotten poet and essayist" --Library Journal

Subjects

Topics

PoetryIn literatureEccentrics and eccentricitiesPoetry (poetic works by one author)Cornwall (England : County) -- PoetryEccentrics and eccentricities -- PoetryHawker, Robert Stephen, 1803?-1875 -- Poetry

People

Robert Stephen Hawker (1803-1875)

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