Linguistic purism saw renewed interest in the 19th century; American statesman Thomas Jefferson observed in an 1825 letter that "a taste is reviving in England for the recovery of the Anglo-Saxon dialect". Dorset poet, minister, and philologist William Barnes coined several words to promote "strong old Anglo-Saxon speech", including ' for "grammar", ' for "ornithology", and "" for "flexible". Poet Gerard Manley Hopkins discussed Barnes in an 1882 letter to Robert Bridges, lamenting the "utter hopelessness" of Barnes's purism but nonetheless writing in support of it, claiming that "no beauty in a language can make up for want of purity". Charles Dickens emphasized the importance of Germanic elements of English during this period, stressing that a writer should not "seek abroad" for new words.