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THE DORSET POET

Written by William Barnes, Chris Wrigley
Published by The Dovecote Press Ltd in 1984
ISBN: 0946159173

THE DORSET POET
Written by William Barnes, Chris Wrigley.
Stock no. 1831304
1st thus. 1984. Softcover. Slightly better than very good condition.

A comprehensive selection of poetry and prose by the greatest and most popular of all English dialect poets. Introduced and selected by Chris Wrigley. Green pictorial cardwraps. xii and 244 pages including index. ISBN: 0946159173. Spine slightly faded. Corners of covers lightly rubbed. Text block a little dusty and a few foxspots to top edge. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean.

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Cover of THE DORSET POET by William Barnes; Chris Wrigley

Contents

  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • REFERENCES TO INTRODUCTION
  • PART I: POEMS IN NATIONAL ENGLISH
  • White and Blue
  • Melhill Feast
  • Rustic Childhood
  • The Woodland Home
  • The Lane
  • Autumn
  • Moss
  • To a Garden - on Leaving it
  • The Bird-Boy's Dinner Token
  • Leaves
  • Rural Seclusion
  • The Home-Ground
  • The Elm in Home-Ground
  • Moonlight
  • The Eegrass
  • Memory's Stores
  • Learning
  • Athelhamton House
  • Friendly Light
  • Plorata Veris Lachrymis
  • My Dearest Julia
  • The Wind at the Door
  • See or Hear
  • The Bank Steps
  • Beechley
  • Season Tokens
  • The Church Tower
  • The News of the Day
  • Brown Bennets
  • Benighted
  • The Depopulated Village
  • Goody Tired
  • Home-Field
  • A Sabbath Lay
  • PART 2: POEMS IN DORSET DIALECT
  • The Spring
  • Easter Zunday
  • Easter Monday
  • Dock-Leaves
  • Woodcom's Feast
  • The Girt Woak Tree that's in the Dell
  • Vellen o'the Tree
  • Evenen Twilight
  • Evenen in the Village
  • May
  • Bob the Fiddler
  • The wHite Road up Athirt the Hill
  • The Woody Hollow
  • Jenny's Ribbons
  • Eclogue: The 'Lotments
  • Eclogue: A Bit o'Sly Coorten
  • Whitsuntide an'Club Walken
  • Woodley
  • The Brook that Ran by Gramfer's
  • Sweet Music in the Wind
  • Uncle an' Aunt
  • Haven Woone's Fortune-a-Twold
  • Meaken up a Miff
  • Hay-Meaken
  • Hay-Carren
  • Eclogue: The Best Man in the Vield
  • Wehre we did Keep our Flagon
  • Week's End in Zummer in the Wold Vo'k's Time
  • The Evenen Star 'Zummer
  • I Got Two Vields
  • Be'mi'ster
  • Eclogue: The Veairies
  • A-Haulen o' the Corn
  • Harvest Hwome: (1)
  • Harvest Hwome: (2)
  • A Zong ov Harvest Hwome
  • Grenley Water
  • Out a-Nutten
  • Shrodon Feair: (1)
  • Shrodon Feair: (2)
  • Martin's Tide
  • Guy Faux's Night
  • Eclogue: The Common a-Took in
  • Eclogue: Two Farms in Woone
  • Eclogue: Rusticus Res Politicas Animadvertens, the New Poor Laws
  • Grammere's Shoes
  • Zunsheen in the Winter
  • The Settle an' the Girt Wood Vire
  • Keepen up o' Chris'mas
  • Zitten out the Wold Year
  • Eclogue: Father Come Hwome
  • Eclogue: A Ghost
  • Uncle Out o'Debt an' Out o'Danger
  • The World Waggon
  • The Common a-Took in
  • The Vaices that be Gone
  • Aunt's Tantrums
  • A Witch
  • Eclogue: The Times
  • Blackmwore Maidens
  • My Orcha'd in Linden Lea
  • Bishop's Caundle
  • Day's Work-a-Done
  • The Waggon a-Stooden
  • Ellen Brine ov Allenburn
  • The Maid o'Newton
  • Meary's Smile
  • The Window Fream'd wi Stwone
  • The Water-Spring in the Leane
  • The Poplars
  • The Linden on the Lawn
  • Zun-zet
  • Spring
  • The Water Crowvoot
  • The Lilac
  • The Blackbird
  • Lydlinch Bells
  • The Stage Coach
  • Trees be Company
  • Jessie Lee
  • Ivy Hall
  • The Wife-a-Lost
  • Herrenston
  • Pentridge by the River
  • The Turn o'the Days
  • Gammony Gay
  • Leeburn Mill
  • Woone Smile Mwore
  • Woak Hill
  • The Hedger
  • The Flood in Spring
  • Comen Hwome
  • Early Playmeate
  • Picken o'Scroff
  • Good Night
  • Went Hwone
  • Childern's Childern
  • The Rwose in the Dark
  • Zummer Winds
  • Zummer Stream
  • Lindenore
  • The Love Child
  • Times o'Year
  • Zummer an'Winter
  • To Me
  • Tokens
  • Tweil
  • Evenen Light
  • Vields by Watervalls
  • Fall Time
  • The Zilgver-Weed
  • The Fancy Feair at Maiden Newton
  • I'm Out o'Door
  • Sliden
  • The Humstrum
  • Shaftesbury Feair
  • Danioel Dwithen, The Wise Chap
  • John Bloom in London
  • Shop o'Meat-Weare
  • The Knoiwl
  • At the Door
  • Hill or Dell
  • Fellowship
  • Air an' Light
  • Meldon Hill
  • Black an'White
  • Clouds
  • The Wind a-Playen Round
  • The Parrick
  • By the Mill in Spring
  • Shellbrook
  • Rings
  • Mother o'Mothers
  • The Geate a-Vallen To
  • PART III: SELECTIONS FROM BARNES' WRITINGS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Auctions
  • Gardening
  • Association
  • The Church and Culture
  • Human Progression
  • Linguiana (Three Parts)
  • PART IV: GLOSSARY OF DORSET WORDS