Matthias Barr
Mathias Fritschler Barr (6 December 1831 – 21 December 1911, in London) was a Scottish poet.
Barr was borj on 6 December 1831, in Edinburgh. His father, Fidelie, was a native of Germany, who had married the Edinburgh native Margaret Mcdonald, and carried on the business of a watchmaker in that city. Barr received a liberal education at the High School and Academy of Edinburgh, then paid a brief visit to Germany, and afterwards removed to London, where he held a respectable appointment for a number of years, devoting his leisure hours to the cultivation of his literary tastes. Among his pursuits, Barr owned a music-selling and publishing establishment in London.[citation needed]
In 1865, his first-published volume of poems appeared, and he thereafter issued several short volumes of well-regarded verse. He was compared to Burns and Wordsworth in finding the inspiration of song in the most common objects. The simplest scenes, the homeliest incidents, the most common wild-flowers, were subjects addressed by Barr.[citation needed]
Sources
[edit | edit source]- Alexander G. Murdoch, The Scottish Poets Recent and Living: recent and living (1883), p. 262-63.
External links
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