Location: St. Peter's Churchyard, Winterborne Came, Dorset
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English writer, poet, minister, and philologist. He wrote over 800 poems, some in Dorset dialect. He was deeply interested in grammar and language, and waged a lifelong campaign to rid English of classical and foreign influences.
Among his best known books of poetry are Poems of Rural Life in Dorset Dialect (1884) and Homely Rhymes (1859). His work has often been praised for its evocations of Dorset life, landscape and customs; he also wrote political poems of great power and was a master elegist.
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