Hawker, R. S.

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Hawker, R. S. ( Robert Stephen Hawker) (1803–75), was from 1834 the eccentric vicar of Morwenstow in Cornwall; much of his poetry was inspired by Cornish landscape and legend, and by the frequent shipwrecks off the dangerous coast of his parish. He was the author of ‘The Song of the Western Men’ (1825); based on an Old Cornish ballad, it has the refrain: ‘And shall Trelawney die?’ He published various volumes of poetry, including in 1864 part of the projected long blank verse Arthurian poem, The Quest of the Sangraal.

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