Hawker Of Morwenstow

This illuminating biography of Robert Stephen Hawker (1803-75) unravels fully the famous Cornish parson-poet''s rich personality. Drawing on a mass of unpublished material, Piers Brendon re-creates one of the most bizarre of Victorian lives, revealing the mixture of truth, over-simplification and falsehood in the legend which has built up around him.

The popular account depicts Hawker as a youth ...