William Martin

Born in 1801 and died in 1867, he was an English poet and teacher associated with Cornwall. He spent much of his working life as a schoolmaster, and his writing drew closely on the language, customs, and landscape of the region.

He is especially remembered for poems in Cornish dialect as well as for longer narrative and descriptive pieces. That local focus gives his work a warm, distinctive voice and makes it valuable not only as literature, but also as a record of Cornish life in the nineteenth century.

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