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Its 96 poems include some of those most loved and admired: poems of heart-wrenching grief at the untimely deaths of Barnes’s wife, Julia (“Woak Hill”), and their young son, Julius “The turnstile”); celebrations of love anticipated (“In the spring”) and love fulfilled (“Don’t ceäre”); protests against injustice and snobbery (“The love child”); struggles to accept God’s will (“Grammer a-crippled”); comic poems (“John Bloom in Lon’on”, “A lot o’ maïdens a-runnèn the vields”); and poems on numerous other subjects, with an emotional range stretching from the deepest of grief to the highest of joy. The metrical forms show astonishing versatility, from straightforward octosyllabic couplets to challenging rhyme-schemes and innovative stanzaic patterns, widely varied line-lengths, and skilful adaptations of rhetorical devices from other languages. 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-3/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 3. Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, third collection (1862) 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. 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For the full Cataloguing-in-Publication data please contact the National Library of Australia: [email protected] ISBN (paperback) 978-1-925261-57-8 ISBN (ebook) 978-1-925261-58-5 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.20851/barnes-vol-3 Cover illustration: The River Frome, Morton nr Dorchester, 1901 (oil on canvas), Whitehead, Frederick William Newton (1853–1938) / Private Collection / Photo © Peter Nahum at The Leicester Galleries, London / The Bridgeman Art Library Cover design: Emma Spoehr Paperback printed by SOS Print + Media Group, NSW, 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 1 A note on the text 21 ―Zummer stream‖: a line-by-line phonemic analysis 21 Third-Collection Poems with phonemic transcripts Woone smile mwore 32 The echo 36 Vull a man 40 Naïghbour plaÿmeätes 44 The lark 48 The two churches 50 Woak Hill 54 The hedger 58 In the Spring 62 The flood in Spring 66 Comèn hwome 70 Grammer a-crippled 72 The castle ruins 76 Eclogue: John, Jealous at Shroton Feäir 80 Early plaÿmeäte 90 Pickèn o‘ scroff 94 Good night 98 Went hwome 100 The hollow woak 102 v Childern‘s childern 104 The rwose in the dark 108 Come 110 Zummer winds 112 The neäme letters 116 The new house a-gettèn wold 120 Zunday 122 The pillar‘d geäte 124 Zummer stream 130 Linda Deäne 132 Eclogue: Come and zee us in the zummer 134 Lindenore 138 Me‘th below the tree 140 Treat well your wife 144 The child an‘ the mowers 148 The love child 152 Hawthorn Down 156 Oben vields 160 What John wer a-tellèn his mis‘ess out in the corn ground 164 Sheädes 166 Times o‘ year 168 Eclogue: Racketèn Joe 170 Zummer an‘ winter 178 To me 180 Two an‘ two 184 The lew o‘ the rick 186 The wind in woone‘s feäce 188 Tokens 190 Tweil 192 Fancy 196 The broken heart 198 Evenèn light 200 Vields by watervalls 204 The wheel routs 208 Nanny‘s new abode 212 vi Leaves a-vallèn 216 Lizzie 220 Blessèns a-left 222 Fall time 226 Fall 228 The zilver-weed 230 The widow‘s house 232 The child‘s greäve 236 Went vrom hwome 240 The fancy feäir at Maïden Newton 242 Things do come round 246 Zummer thoughts in winter time 250 I‘m out o‘ door 252 Grief an‘ gladness 256 Slidèn 258 Lwonesomeness 262 A snowy night 266 The year-clock 268 Not goo hwome to-night 274 The humstrum 278 Shaftesbury Feäir 282 The beäten path 286 Ruth a-ridèn 290 Beauty undecked 294 My love is good 296 Heedless o‘ my love 300 The Do‘set militia 304 A Do‘set sale 308 Don‘t ceäre 310 Changes [I] 314 Kindness 318 Withstanders 322 Daniel Dwithen, the wise chap 326 Turnèn things off 330 The giants in treädes 334 vii The little worold 338 Bad news 342 The turnstile 344 The better vor zeèn o‘ you 348 Pity 352 John Bloom in Lon‘on 356 A lot o‘ maïdens a-runnèn the vields 364 Textual Notes 371 Appendix: A summary of sections 7 and 8 of WBPG 379 viii PREFACE This is the third 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. London: H. Frowde; New York: G. P. Putnam‘s, 1898–1905. EEP On Early English Pronunciation (see Ellis) Ellis Ellis, Alexander J. On Early English Pronunciation, with Especial Reference to Shakespere and Chaucer ..