Quote of the day
I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.
Robert Stephen Hawker

Born: December 3, 1803
Died: August 15, 1875 (aged 71)
Bio: Robert Stephen Hawker was an Anglican priest, poet, antiquarian of Cornwall and reputed eccentric.
Known for:
- Footprints of former men in far Cornwall
- Cornish ballads & other poems
- Echoes From Old Cornwall
- Hawker's Cornish Witchcraft






