John Harris
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Cornish poet
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Harris FRHS was a Cornish poet. He became a fellow of the Royal Historical Society in April 1879 for being ″distinguished in letters″. Harris was born and raised in a two-bedroom cottage on the slopes of Bolenowe, a small hamlet near Camborne, Cornwall, in England. He was the eldest of nine children . At age twelve, he was sent to work at Dolcoath mine where he combined a life of painful labour with the production of poetry celebrating his native landscape around Carn Brea and the scenic splendours of Land's End and the Lizard. He could not afford pen and paper, so he improvised and used blackberry juice for ink and grocery bags for paper.
