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The Sound of William Barnes's Dialect Poems Welcome to the electronic edition of The Sound of William Barnes’s Dialect Poems: 2. Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, second collection (1859). The book opens with the bookmark panel and you will see the contents page. Click on this anytime to return to the contents. You can also add your own bookmarks. Each chapter heading in the contents table is clickable and will take you direct to the chapter. Return using the contents link in the bookmarks. The whole document is fully searchable. Enjoy. The Sound of William Barnes’s Dialect Poems 2. Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, second collection About this volume This is the second volume in a series that sets out to to provide a phonemic transcript and an audio recording of each individual poem in Barnes’s three collections of Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect. Beginning with two poems that inspired Vaughan Williams to set them to music, and ending with a paean of praise for the poet’s native county, this second collection contains 105 poems of immense range and power. There are poems of longing, of love and of loss; of pain and of protest; of tears and of laughter; of grief and consolation; of feasting and celebration; of music and birdsong; of falsehood and friendship and faith; of generosity and meanness; of bad temper and good; of stasis and travel; of flowers and trees; of storm and of calm. “Here,” in short, (as Dryden famously said of the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer) “is God’s plenty”. T. L. Burton is an Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Adelaide. Free audio files of T. L. Burton performing the poems in this book are available from www.adelaide.edu.au/press/titles/barnes-vol-2/recordings This book is available as a free fully-searchable PDF from www.adelaide.edu.au/press The Sound of William Barnes’s Dialect Poems 2. Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, second collection (1859) as revised for the final collection (1879) by T. L. Burton Department of English and Creative Writing School of Humanities The University of Adelaide This book is available as a free ebook from adelaide.edu.au/press Published in Adelaide by University of Adelaide Press Barr Smith Library The University of Adelaide South Australia 5005 [email protected] www.adelaide.edu.au/press The University of Adelaide Press publishes externally refereed scholarly books by staff of the University of Adelaide. It aims to maximise access to the University’s best research by publishing works through the internet as free downloads and for sale as high quality printed volumes. © 2017 T. L. Burton This work is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecom- mons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 444 Castro Street, Suite 900, Mountain View, California, 94041, USA. This licence allows for copying any part of the work for personal and commercial use, providing author attribution is clearly stated. Address all inquiries to the Director at the above address. For the full Cataloguing-in-Publication data please contact the National Library of Australia: [email protected] ISBN (paperback) 978-1-925261-49-3 ISBN (ebook) 978-1-925261-50-9 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.20851/barnes-vol-2 Cover illustration: A Hill Farm, Symondsbury, Dorset (w/c on paper), Allingham, Helen (1848–1926) / Private Collection / The Bridgeman Art Library Cover design: Emma Spoehr Paperback printed by Griffin Press, South Australia CONTENTS Preface ix Abbreviations xi Key to phonetic symbols xv Alternative pronunciations xvi Table of common alternatives xvii Introduction The spelling and pronunciation of the modified form of the dialect 1 Chief differences in spelling between the broad form of the dialect in 1844 and the modified form in 1879 3 A note on the text 24 ―Childhood‖: a line-by-line phonemic analysis 24 Second-Collection Poems with phonemic transcripts Blackmwore maïdens 36 My orcha‘d in Lindèn Lea 40 Bishop‘s Caundle 42 Haÿ meäkèn—nunchen time 48 A father out, an‘ mother hwome 54 Riddles 58 Day‘s work a-done 66 Light or sheäde 70 The waggon a-stooded 72 Gwaïn down the steps vor water 80 Ellen Brine ov Allenburn 84 The motherless child 88 The leädy‘s tower 90 Fatherhood 100 The Maïd o‘ Newton 106 Childhood 110 Meäry‘s smile 114 Meäry wedded 116 The stwonen bwoy upon the pillar 120 v The young that died in beauty 124 Fair Emily of Yarrow Mill 128 The scud 132 Mindèn house 136 The lovely maïd ov Elwell Meäd 140 Our fathers‘ works 144 The wold vo‘k dead 148 Culver Dell and the squire 152 Our be‘thplace 156 The window freämed wi‘ stwone 160 The water-spring in the leäne 164 The poplars 168 The linden on the lawn 172 Our abode in Arby Wood 176 Slow to come, quick agone 178 The vier-zide 180 Knowlwood 184 Hallowed pleäces 188 The wold wall 194 Bleäke‘s house in Blackmwore 196 John Bleäke at hwome at night 202 Milkèn time 206 When birds be still 208 Ridèn hwome at night 212 Zun-zet 216 Spring 220 The zummer hedge 222 The water crowvoot 226 The lilac 230 The blackbird [II] 234 The slantèn light o‘ fall 238 Thissledown 242 The maÿ-tree 244 Lydlinch bells 246 The stage coach 250 vi Wayfeärèn 254 The leäne 258 The raïlroad [I] 264 The raïlroad [II] 266 Seats 268 Sound o‘ water 272 Trees be company 274 A pleäce in zight 278 Gwaïn to Brookwell 282 Brookwell 288 The shy man 294 The winter‘s willow 298 I know who 302 Jessie Lee 304 True love 308 The beän vield 312 Wold friends a-met 316 Fifehead 320 Ivy Hall 324 False friends-like 328 The bachelor 330 Married peäir‘s love walk 334 A wife a-praïs‘d 338 The wife a-lost 342 The thorns in the geäte 346 Angels by the door 350 Vo‘k a-comèn into church 354 Woone rule 358 Good Meäster Collins 360 Herrenston 364 Out at plough 368 The bwoat 372 The pleäce our own ageän 376 Eclogue: John an‘ Thomas 380 Pentridge by the river 386 vii Wheat 390 The meäd in June 396 Early risèn 400 Zellèn woone‘s honey to buy zome‘hat sweet 402 Dobbin dead 406 Happiness 410 Gruffmoody Grim 414 The turn o‘ the days 420 The sparrow club 424 Gammony Gaÿ 428 The heäre 434 Nanny Gill 438 Moonlight on the door 442 My love‘s guardian angel 446 Leeburn Mill 450 Praïse o‘ Do‘set 454 Textual notes 459 Appendix: A summary of sections 7 and 8 of WBPG 467 viii PREFACE This is the second volume in a series that sets out to provide a phonemic transcript and an audio recording of each poem in Barnes‘s three collections of Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect. The individual volumes in the series are not designed to be critical editions: they do not contain variant readings from different versions of the poems or detailed notes on matters of linguistic, literary, social, historical, or biographical interest. The aim is simply to provide a self-contained, uncluttered, and reader-friendly text, which may be read on-screen or on the page, with marginal glosses for any words or phrases that might cause difficulty, together with audio recordings that may be freely audited online. In addition to the many kind friends whose help is acknowledged in the Pronunciation Guide from which this series derives I wish particularly to thank John Emerson, Director of the University of Adelaide Press, and his staff, for their unshakeable patience and their staunch support. ix ABBREVIATIONS 1844 The first edition of Barnes‘s first collection of dialect poems, Poems of Rural Life, in the Dorset Dialect: With a Dissertation and Glossary (1844) 1847 The second edition of Barnes‘s first collection of dialect poems (1847) 1863 Grammar Barnes‘s A Grammar and Glossary of the Dorset Dialect with the History, Outspreading, and Bearings of South-Western Eng- lish. Berlin: A. Asher for The Philological Society, 1863. 1879 Barnes‘s Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect. London: C. Kegan Paul, 1879 (containing the first, second, and third collections of Poems of Rural Life brought together in one volume.) 1886 Glossary Barnes‘s A Glossary of the Dorset Dialect with a Grammar of Its Word Shapening and Wording. Dorchester: M. & E. Case, County Printers; London: Trübner, 1886. adv. adverb AED Upton, Clive, and J. D. A. Widdowson. An Atlas of English Dialects. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2006. C Consonant cs Comparative Specimen (in Part 5 of Ellis‘s On Early Eng- lish Pronunciation) cwl Classified Word List (in Part 5 of Ellis‘s On Early English Pronunciation) DCC Dorset County Chronicle Diss. The ―Dissertation on the Dorset Dialect of the English Language‖ prefaced to 1844 DWS Elworthy, Frederic Thomas. ―The Dialect of West Somerset.‖ Transactions of the Philological Society (1875–76): 197–272. English Dialect Society, Series D, Miscel- laneous, 7. London: Trübner, 1875. xi EDD The English Dialect Dictionary: Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words Still in Use, or Known to Have Been in Use during the Last Two Hundred Years; Founded on the Publications of the English Dialect Society and on a Large Amount of Material Never Before Printed. Ed. Joseph Wright. 6 vols.
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