William Barnes was an English writer, poet, Church of England priest, and philologist. He wrote over 800 poems, some in Dorset dialect, and much other work, including a comprehensive English grammar quoting from more than 70 different languages. Wikipedia
“The beautiful in nature is the unmarred result of God's first creative or forming will”
Thoughts on Beauty in Art- Article in MacMillan's Magazine 1861.
Context: The beautiful in nature is the unmarred result of God's first creative or forming will, and.. the beautiful in art is the result of an unmistaken working of man in accordance with the beautiful in nature.
The Wind at the Door, from Poets of the English Language, W. H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson (1950).
The Wife a-lost, from Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect (1879).
