THE SALAMANCA CORPUS:
DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF ENGLISH DIALECT TEXTS
DORSETSHIRE
DING 2021: "Renown English dialect poet and philologist born in the Blackmore Vale. He endeavoured to represent his native soil through his poetry, adapting the speech of Dorsetshire to his work. His poems are mainly characterised by an emphasis on pathos and a vision of rural life and menial labour in the West Country. He left school at 15, studied classics and opened and ran his own school in 1823. He was ordained priest in 1847 by the Anglican church. He firstly published his dialect poems in a countryside journal called Dorset County Chronicle. His works and his representation of Dorset dialect have attracted the attention of numerous scholars through the years. We offer just a brief listing of the most important.”
WORKS
1838. "The Unioneers." Dorset County Chronicle 6 Dec.: 2. SC.
1844. Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd. EDD.
1859. Hwomely Rhymes: a Second Collection of Poems in the Dorset Dialect. London: John Russell Smith. EDD.
1859. The Song of Solomon in the Dorset Dialect. London: George Barclay. EDD.
1863. A Grammar and Glossary of the Dorset Dialect with the History, Outspreading and Bearings of South-western English. Berlin: Asher, 1863. EDD.
1886. A Glossary of the Dorset Dialect with a Grammar of Its Word Shapening and Wording. London:.
KINGKONG PROJECT
Rev, William BARNES (M: 1801 Feb 22 (wrongly Mar 20) - 1886 Oct 7)
Poetical Pieces [p|1820]
Orra [f|1822]
The Etymological Glossary [n|1829]
The Solution Of The Problem To Tri-Sect The Arc.. [extinct] [n|1832]
A Catechism Of Government In General, And Of England In Particular [n|1833]
The Mnemonical Manual [extinct] [n|1833]
A Few Words On The Advantages Of..Mathematics..Education [n|1834]
A Mathematical Investigation Of The Principle Of Hanging Doors.. [n|1835]
A Corrective Concordance [n|c1839]
An Arithmetical And Commercial Dictionary [n|1840]
An Investigation Of The Laws Of Case In Language.. [n|1840]
The Elements Of English Grammar, With A Set Of Questions.. [n|1842]
The Elements Of Linear Perspective And The Projection Of Shadows [n|1842]
Exercises In Practical Science [n|1844]
Sabbath Lays (w F W SMITH) [1844]
Poems Of Rural Life, In The Dorset Dialect (1st series) [1] [p|1844]
Poems, Partly Of Rural Life (In National English) [p|1846]
Outlines Of Geography And Ethnography For Youth [extinct] [n|1847]
Humilis Domis [n|c1849]
Se Gefylstá (The Helper) [n|1849]
A Philological Grammar, Grounded Upon English.. [n|1854]
Notes On Ancient Britain And The Britons [n|1858]
Views Of Labour And Gold [n|1859]
The Song Of Solomon In The Dorset Dialect [?-?] (tr) [1859]
Homely Rhymes (aka: Poems In The Dorset Dialect) (2nd series) [2] [p|1859]
Tiw [n|1861]
Poems Of Rural Life In The Dorset Dialect (3rd series) [3] [p|1862]
A Grammar And Glossary Of The Dorset Dialect [n|1863]
A Guide To Dorchester [n|1864]
Poems Of Rural Life In Common English (aka: Rural Poems) [p|1868]
Early England And The Saxon-English [n|1869]
A Selection From Unpublished Poems [p|1870]
An Outline Of English Speech-Craft [n|1878]
Poems Of Rural Life In The Dorset Dialect [1+2+3] [p|1879]
An Outline Of Rede-Craft (Logic), With English Wording [n|1880]
Ruth [d|pub:c1881]
A Glossary Of The Dorset Dialect, With A Grammar.. [n|1886]
Select Poems Of William Barnes (ed Thomas HARDY) [p|1908]
A Selection From Poems Of Rural Life.. (ed William M BARNES) [p|1909]
Twenty Poems In Common English (ed John DRINKWATER) [p|1925]
Poems Grave And Gay (ed Giles DUGDALE) [p|1949]
Selected Poems Of William Barnes (ed Geoffrey GRIGSON) [p|1950]
The Poems (ed Bernard JONES) [2v|p|1962]
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT HIS LIFE AND WORKS SEE
Austin, Frances and Bernard Jones, 2002. The Language and Craft of William Barnes, English Poet and Philologist. Lewinston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press.
Burton, T. L. 2003. The Sound of William Barnes's Dialect Poems. Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press
Burton, T. L.2 2007. "What William Barnes Done: Dilution of the Dialect in Later Versions of the Poems of Rural Life". The Review of English Studies 58: 235
Burton, T.L. 2010. William Barnes's Dialect Poems: A Pronunciation Guide.The Chaucer Studio Press.
Burton, T. L. and K. K. Ruthven. eds. 2014. The Complete Poems of William Barnes. Volume I: Poems in the Broad Form of the Dorset Dialect. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Burton, T. L. and K. K. Ruthven. eds. 2018. The Complete Poems of William Barnes. Volume II: Poems in the Modified Form of the Dorset Dialect. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Chedzoy, Alan. 2010. William Barnes: The People's Poet. Stroud: History Press.
Edney, S. 2013. "William Barnes's Place and Dialects of Connection." In Blair K., Gorji M. eds. Class and the Canon. Palgrave Macmillan: 191-210.
Wrigley, C. 2006. "Barnes, William (1801–1886), poet and philologist." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. [Last accessed 19 May 2021.
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DIALECT LITERATURE
1800-1950
SOUTH
DORSETSHIRE VERSE
William Barnes
(1801-1886)
