Download or read book Hawker of Morwenstow written by Piers Brendon and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2002-04-04 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Drawing on a mass of unpublished material, Piers Brendon re-creates one of the most bizarre of Victorian lives, revealing the mixture of truth, over-simplification and falsehood in the legend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 of wild high spirits who delighted in hoaxes and practical jokes. As an Oxford undergraduate he won the Newdigate Poetry Prize and married his rich 41-year-old godmother. In 1834 he became vicar of Morwenstow and spent the rest of his life in his desolate country parish on the storm-swept coast of north Cornwall. He was a charitable, hard-working Anglo-Catholic but, owing to the remoteness of his position and lack of sympathy from his parishioners, his true genius became warped and he succumbed to wayward eccentricity. His dress was, to say the least, unorthodox, and he became obsessed with antiquarian lore, lending a haunting reality to the arcane superstitions which he cultivated. He entertained no doubt whatever about the active agency of demons and angels, ghosts and brownies. He talked to birds, invited his nine cats into church and excommunicated one of them when it caught a mouse on Sunday. Out of the timbers of wrecked ships he built a hut, a forbidding sanctuary perched on the high cliff-edge, where he invoked mystic visions and composed romantic poetry. Piers Brendon here rescues Hawker from legend, and his fascinating book substitutes character for caricature. An even more interesting and idiosyncratic Hawker emerges, scarred and moulded by the stark isolation of his hostile seaboard benefice, a man of remarkable insight and compassion, who submitted in strange ways to his calling, and who, it turns out, proves to have been a true prophet in his yearning exclamation: 'what a life mine would be if it were all written and published in a book.'

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Download or read book The Poetical Works of Robert Stephen Hawker written by Robert Stephen Hawker and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poor Man s Morning Portion written by Robert Hawker and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Hawker was considered as the "Star of the West", due to his superlative preaching that drew thousands to Charles to hear him speak for over an hour at a time. He was a bold Evangelical, caring father, active in education and compassionate for the poor and needy of the parish, a scholar and author of many books and deeply beloved of his parishioners. Described as "one of Almighties almoners/Entrusted with supernatural wealth" .

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Download or read book The Vicar of Morwenstow Being a Life of Robert Stephen Hawker M A written by S. Baring-Gould and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-11 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Vicar of Morwenstow: Being a Life of Robert Stephen Hawker, M.A" by S. Baring-Gould. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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Download or read book The Vicar of Morwenstow A Life of Robert Stephen Hawker written by Sabine Baring Gould and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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Download or read book VICAR OF MORWENSTOW A LIFE OF written by S. (Sabine) 1834-1924 Baring-Gould and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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