Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect
William Barnes, a Dorset schoolmaster, clergyman and philologist, wrote his best poems in the speech of the farm workers among whom he grew up. Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect gathers his three collections into one volume. The first follows the seasons of the year, from spring and Easter Sunday through summer haymaking and autumn to winter firesides, and includes eclogues in which villagers discuss enclosure, allotments and hard times. Barnes writes of woods, lanes, mills, courtship, family and grief with quiet music and precise detail. Thomas Hardy, who knew him well, admired him deeply, and the poems remain a landmark of English dialect verse. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first poems are free.
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