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4 unusual facts about Cornish literature


Cornish literature

Additionally, writers such as Nick Darke and Alan M. Kent have incorporated a Cornish background into English writing.

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Of the early pieces the most significant is the so-called "Cranken Rhyme" produced by John Davey of Boswednack, one of the last people with some traditional knowledge of the language.

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Twelve of Edmund Bonner's Homelies to be read within his diocese of London of all Parsons, vycars and curates (1555; nine of these were by John Harpsfield) were translated into Cornish by John Tregear, and are now the largest single work of traditional Cornish prose.

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In 1981, the Breton library Preder edited it in modern scripture under the name of Passyon agan arluth.



see also

Alan M. Kent

He is the author of a number of works on Cornish and Anglo-Cornish literature.