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John Barr of Craigilee (24 October 1809 – 18 September 1889) was a Scottish-New Zealand poet. ==Biography== Born in Paisley, Scotland in 1809, Barr moved to Otago in 1852, and farmed a property at Halfway Bush.〔''Writers in Residence'', by Jenny Robin Jones, Auckland University Press, 2004〕 In 1857 he moved with his wife Mary Jamieson (née Lamb) and their four children to Balclutha, and established a farm which he called Craigilee. He was the founder of the New Zealand Robert Burns Society.〔''Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English, Oxford University Press, 1997.〕 In his time, he was considered the ''Laureate of Otago Province'', of which he wrote, in Lowland Scots: :''There's nae place like Otago yet,'' :''There's nae wee beggar weans,'' :''Or auld men shivering at our doors'' :''To beg for scraps or banes'' By Feb 1862 John was in Dunedin when he printed a 'little volume' of poems, published in Edinburgh. The 'Otago Daily Times' wrote ... "quite irrespective of their local character, which endows them with a peculiar attraction, the Poems possess intrinsic merits in themselves which entitle them to rank high as literary productions" Allen Curnow described his writing as "this Scots-colonial ''parritch''... watery gruel at the best." Barr died on 18 September 1889 at Dunedin. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Barr (poet)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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