Six Eclogues from William Barnes's Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect (first Collection, 1884) PDF Download

Author: T. L. Burton
Publisher: University of Adelaide Press
ISBN: 0987073087
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Book Description
When William Barnes began publishing poems in the Dorset County Chronicle in the 1830s in the dialect of his native Blackmore Vale, the first poems that appeared were in the form of eclogues - dialogues between country people on country matters. The phonemic transcripts in this book, based on the findings in T. L. Burton's William Barnes's Dialect Poems: A Pronunciation Guide (2010), show what the poems would have sounded like in Barnes's own time; the accompanying audio recordings (made at the 2010 Adelaide Fringe) give living voice to the sounds noted in the transcripts.