Robert Stephen Hawker

Robert Stephen Hawker (1864)

Robert Stephen Hawker (born December 3, 1803 or 1804 in Stoke Damerell (now Plymouth ), England, † August 15, 1875 in Plymouth) was a pastor, author, poet and antiquarian. His best known work is the poem The Song of the Western Men from 1825.

biography

Hawker was born the son of a minister in Stoke Damerell. He studied at Oxford and married his forty-one-year-old godmother Charlotte I'an when he was nineteen.

Hawker had already written his first poems at Cheltenham Grammar School and published them in 1821 under the title Tendrils .

The Song of the Western Men , also known as Trelawny , is a poem that was first published in The Royal Devonport Telegraph and the Plymouth Chronicle in September 1826. In addition to the poetic treatise of the events of Bishop Sir Jonathan Trelawny (1650–1721), it contains a traditional Cornish saying and was later given a text extension for the piece of music.
It was originally published anonymously by Hawker and was notattributed to Hawkerby Charles Dickens until 26 years later, in 1852.

1832 followed the publication Records of the Western Shore , in which Hawker the poem The Song of the Western Men also used.

Ecclesia: A Volume of Poems , 1843 Reeds Shaken with the Wind , 1846 Echoes from Old Cornwall and 1864 The Quest of the Sangraal: Chant the First Exeter appeared eight years later, in 1840 .

In 1870 he published a collection of his manuscripts under the title Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall (Fragments of a Broken Mind) , which were Hawker's own autobiography, as they went back to his first work.

Works

• 1821: Tendrils
• 1832: Records of the Western Shore
• 1840: Ecclesia: A Volume of Poems
• 1843: Reeds Shaken with the Wind
• 1846: Echoes from Old Cornwall
• 1864: The Quest of the Sangraal: Chant the First Exeter
• 1870: Footprints of Former Men in Cornwall (Fragments of a Broken Mind)

Hawkers hut

Hawkers Hut on the Cornish coast

Hawkers Hut (Engl. Hawker's Hut ) is a torfgedeckter wooden shed on the Cornish coast near Morwenstow, north of Higher Sharpnose Point . Hawker himself built the hut out of driftwood from sunken ships. He retired here to write poetry and smoke opium , and through the doorway Hawker could look out over the sea to Lundy Island . Today the hut is the smallest structure under the protection of the National Trust .

literature

• Charles Edward Byles: The Life and Letters of RS Hawker - Sometime Vicar of Morwenstow . John Lane, London / New York 1906.
• Sabine Baring-Gould : The Vicar of Morwenstow - A Live of Robert Stephen Hawker, MA Henry S. King & Co., London 1876.
• Frederick George Lee: Memorial of the Late Rev. Robert Stephen Hawker, MA - Sometimes Vicar of Morwenstow, in the diocese of Exeter . Chatto and Windus, Picadilly, London 1876.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Robert Stephen Hawker. In: glasglow.com. Retrieved July 15, 2009 . 
2. ^ Sabine Baring-Gould: The vicar of Morwenstow . (Biography of Robert Stephen Hawker; queried July 15, 2009).
3. ^ Sabine Baring-Gould: The vicar of Morwenstow . (Biography of Robert Stephen Hawker; p. 15; queried July 17, 2009).
4. ^ Sabine Baring-Gould: The vicar of Morwenstow . (Biography of Robert Stephen Hawker; p. 14; queried July 17, 2009).
5. ^ Robert Stephen Hawker (1803-1875) - The Song of the Western Men. In: tspace.library.utoronto.ca. Retrieved January 13, 2014 . 
6. ^ Charles Edward Byles: The life and letters of RS Hawker (sometime Vicar of Morwenstow) . London 1906 (p. 72; queried July 20, 2009).
7. ^ Charles Edward Byles: The life and letters of RS Hawker (sometime Vicar of Morwenstow) . London 1906 (p. 247 (PDF); queried on August 13, 2009).
8. ^ Charles Edward Byles: The life and letters of RS Hawker (sometime Vicar of Morwenstow) . London 1906 (p. 14; queried on July 18, 2009).
9. ↑ Morwenstow cliffs and valleys, Cornwall. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: www.nationaltrust.org.uk. The National Trust, archived from the original on December 14, 2010 ; Retrieved July 17, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ Michael Kent, Merryn Kent: Cornwall and the Coast Path. Retrieved July 17, 2009 . 

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