The Complete Poems of William Barnes

Volume I: Poems in the Broad Form of the Dorset Dialect
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-956752-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 658 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1126 g

This is the first volume of Oxford's three-volume edition of The Complete Poems of William Barnes. William Barnes (1801-1886) was an outstanding but undervalued dialect poet, and this will be the first critical edition of his complete poems. Volume I provides the first critical edition of his Poems of Rural Life, in the Dorset Dialect (1844), which broke new ground by memorializing in print the speech of a rapidly disappearing rural culture. Unfortunately, that 1844 volume has never been reprinted. This is partly because Barnes was persuaded to make its constituent poems more accessible to metropolitan readers of subsequent editions by spelling Dorset words in ways that approximated more closely to standard English, and partly because most editors and anthologists have reprinted only those revised versions of 1844 poems which Barnes published in his 1879 (and final) collection of his dialect poems.

By restoring the integrity of Barnes's first volume, and investigating both its literary lineages and dialectological preoccupations, this annotated edition will enable readers to experience the initial products of those extraordinary years when Barnes was unwaveringly confident in the expressive adequacy of the Dorset dialect as a medium for poetry.

Much of the literary, historical, and topographical information here brought to bear on the 1844 volume is drawn from rarely cited regional publications as well as from Barnes's uncollected contributions to newspapers and journals. The Editors' Introduction, which describes the origins, nature, and reception of Barnes's inaugural volume, offers historical accounts of both the kinds of poetry it represents and the dialectological interests that underpin it.

This edition of Barnes's earliest poems in the Dorset dialect will prompt a reconsideration of their present status in the Victorian literary canon.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burton, T. L.

Ruthven, K. K.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Editionen, Kritische Editionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- Abbreviations

- References

- List of illustrations and maps

- Introduction

- Beginnings

- Dialect and Dialectologies

- Dialect Poetry

- The 1844 Volume

- A Dissertation on the Dorset Dialect of the English Language (1844)

- Poems in the 1844 Collection

- Spring

- The Spring

- The Woodlands

- Liady-Day an Ridden House

- Easter Time

- Dock Leaves

- The Blackbird

- Woodcom Feäst

- The Milk-Mâid o' the Farm

- The Girt Woak Tree That's in the Dell

- Vellen the Tree

- Bringen Oon Gwâin o' Zundays

- Evemen Twilight

- Evemen in the Village

- Mây

- Bob the Fiddler

- Hope in Spring

- The White Road up Athirt the Hill

- The Woody Holler

- Jenny's Ribbons

- Eclogue: The 'Lotments

- Eclogue: A Bit o' Sly Coortèn

- Summer

- Evemen, an' Mâidens Out at Door

- The Shepherd o' the Farm

- Vields in the Light

- Whitsuntide an' Club Wa'kèn

- Woodley

- The Brook that Runn'd by Gramfer's

- Sleep did Come wi' the Dew

- Sweet Music in the Wind

- Uncle an' Ant

- Havèn Oon's Fortun A-Tuold

- Jeän's Weddèn Dae in Marnen

- Rivers Don't Gi'e Out

- Miakèn up a Miff

- Hây-Miakèn

- Hây-Carrèn

- Eclogue: The Best Man in the Vield

- Wher We Did Kip Our Flagon

- Wik's End in Zummer, in the Wold Vo'ke's Time

- The Meäd A-Mow'd

- The Sky A-Clearèn

- The Evemen Star o' Zummer

- The Clote

- I Got Two Viel's

- Polly Be-èn Upzides wi' Tom

- Be'mi'ster

- Thatchèn o' the Rick

- Bees A-Zwarmen

- Readèn ov a Headstuone

- Zummer Evemen Dance

- Eclogue: Viairies

- Fall

- Carn A-Turnèn Yoller

- A-Halèn Carn

- Harvest Huome: The Vust Piart: The Supper

- Harvest Huome: Second Piart: What Tha Done ?ter Supper

- A Zong ov Harvest Huome

- Poll's Jack Da

- The Ivy

- The Welshnut Tree

- Jenny Out vrom Huome

- Grenley Water

- The Viary Veet That I Da Meet

- Marnen

- Out A-Nuttèn

- Tiakèn in Apples

- Miaple Leaves Be Yoller

- The Weather-Beäten Tree

- Shodon Fiair: The Vust Piart

- Shodon Fiair: The Rest o't

- Martin's Tide

- Guy Faux's Night

- Night A-Zettèn In

- Eclogue: The Common A-Took In

- Eclogue: Two Farms in Oone

- Winter

- The Vrost

- A Bit o' Fun

- Fanny's Bethdae

- What Dick an' I Done

- Grammer's Shoes

- Zunsheen in the Winter

- The Weepèn Liady

- The Happy Daes When I Wer Young

- In the Stillness o' the Night

- The Settle an' the Girt Wood Vire

- The Carter

- Christmas Invitation

- Keepèn Up o' Chris'mas

- Zittèn Out the Wold Year

- Woak Wer Good Enough Oonce

- Miary-Ann's Chile

- Eclogue: Faether Come Huome

- Eclogue: A Ghost

- Miscellaneous Pieces

- A Zong

- The Mâid var My Bride

- The Huomestead

- The Farmer's Woldest Daeter

- Uncle Out o' Debt an' Out o' Dannger

- The Church an' Happy Zunday

- The Wold Waggon

- The Common A-Took In

- A Wold Friend

- The Ruose That Deck'd Her Breast

- Nanny's Cow

- The Shep'erd Buoy

- Hope A-Left Behine

- A Good Faether

- The Beam in Grenley Church

- The Vâices That Be Gone

- Poll

- Looks A-Know d'Avore

- The Music o' the Dead

- The Pliace a Tiale's A-Tuold o'

- Ant's Tantrums

- The Stuonen Puorch

- Farmers' Sons

- Jeän

- The Dree Woaks

- The Huomestead A-Vell into Han

- The D'rection Post

- Jeän o' Grenley Mill

- The Bells of Alderburnham

- The Girt Wold House o' Mossy Stuone

- Eclogue: The Times

- A Witch

- Poems Not Included in the 1844 Collection

- Eclogue: A Cousin Down vrom Lon'on

- Eclogue: Emigration

- Eclogue: The New Poor Laws

- The Work Buoy o' the Farm

- The Drove

- Axen Maidens to Goo to Fiair

- A Glossary of the Dorset Dialect of the English Language (1844; 1847)

- Notes on the Dissertation

- Notes on the Poems

- Notes on the Glossary

- Appendices:

- 1. Dissertation: additional variants in punctuation and spelling

- 2. Poems: additional variants in punctuation and spelling

- 3. Poems: variants found in doubtful manuscripts

Über Autor(innen)

Tom Burton is a Professor of English at the University of Adelaide, where he has taught for many years. He was born in Barbados; grew up on a farm in Shropshire; studied English at the University of Bristol; and taught for three years in secondary schools in East Africa and England before going to Australia in the mid 1970s. He has edited a popular book of knowledge in 15th-century English verse for the Early English Text Society, and has written two books for the general public on changing English. He has given lectures and seminars on Barnes's poetry at many universities in the UK and USA and is a frequent speaker to literary societies, writing circles, U3A groups, and on radio. His William Barnes's Dialect Poems: A Pronunciation Guide was published in 2010.

K.K. Ruthven was educated at the University of Manchester, and became a Professor of English at the universities of Canterbury (New Zealand), Adelaide, and Melbourne. At Adelaide he edited Southern Review (1981-85), and at Melbourne a monograph series of introductions to recent theories and critical practices in the humanities and social sciences (19 vols, 1993-96). From 1983 until 2002, he was a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, for which he organised a conference on new developments in the humanities, papers from which he edited as Beyond the Disciplines: The New Humanities (1992).