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John Richardson is one of Cumberland's best loved poets. Born in 1817, he lived in St John's in the Vale until his death in 1886. In his writings in poetry and prose, mostly written in Cumbrian dialect, Richardson cherished the landscape of the Lakes which he knew so well, its hill farms and rivers, and some of its remarkable people. David Hilton, the poet's great-great-nephew, introduces Richardson's life and work-and the landscape that inspired as a builder, schoolmaster and writer. In this book, Richardson's writings in poetry and prose, including his Cummerland Talk; Being Short Tales And Rhymes In The Dialect of That County, Together With A Few Miscellaneous Pieces in Verse and his inimitable Stwories 'At Ganny Use' To Tell, are once again made available to readers of our time.

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David Hilton is a native of Carlisle and lived there from his birth in 1948 until 1975. The seed of this book was sown while studying education at Westminster Training College (Oxford) in the late 1960s. David became aware of a family connection with stone-mason, teacher and poet John Richardson through a college assignment. Conversations with family revealed that the poet was a great-great-uncle on his mother's side. David has a very tentative but real interest in Cumbrian poetry, and a lifelong interest in the county's landscape, geomorphology, and agriculture. He is a keen and experienced fell-walker, and now lives in Northumberland with his wife.

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