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Hawker of Morwenstow
 
Price£35.00
AuthorPiers Brendon
FormatPaperback
PublisherJ Cape 1975
DescriptionExcellent condition with dust jacket covered in clear plastic.

Illuminating biography of Robert Stephen Hawker is the first to be written in seventy years, and the only one to unravel fully the famous Cornish parson-poet’s rich personality.

After marrying his godmother, Hawker became vicar of Morwenstow in 1834. Antiquarian lore became an obsession with him, lending a haunting reality to the arcane superstitions which he cultivated. Out of the timbers of wrecked ships he built a hut perched high on a cliff-edge, where he invoked mystic visions and composed romantic poetry.
 
    
 

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