Complete Poems of William Barnes Volume I: Poems in the Broad Form of the Dorset Dialect
Complete Poems of William Barnes Volume I: Poems in the Broad Form of the Dorset Dialect
- ISBN 13:
9780199567522
- ISBN 10:
0199567522
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 02/19/2014
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
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.