John Harris

John Harris (1820–1884) was a Cornish poet. Harris was born and raised in a two-bedroom cottage on the slopes of Bolenowe Carn, a small hamlet near Camborne, Cornwall, in England. 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.

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Lays from the mine, the moor, and the mountain [by John Harris] (1856)

A story of Carn Brea, essays, and poems [by John Harris] (1863)
















Bulo, Reuben Ross, a tale of the manacles, hymn, song, and story [by John Harris] (1871)
















The cruise of the cutter, and other peace poems [by John Harris] (1872)
















The two giants [by John Harris] (1878)