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 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.

Complete Poems of William Barnes: Volume I: Poems in the Broad Form of the Dorset Dialect

Literature & Fiction

Burton, T. L.

Ruthven, K.K.

British & Irish

Oxford University Press

This volume, the work of a group of Chaucerians from the University of Adelaide, is the latest in the University of Toronto Press's Chaucer Bibliography series, a series which aims to provide annotated bibliographies for all of Chaucer's works. It summarizes twentieth-century commentary on the three fabliaux of Fragment 1 of The Canterbury Tales: the Miller's, the Reeve's, and the Cook's tales. There are separate sections for editions, translations and modernizations, sources and analogues, lexicographical and linguistic studies, for the tales considered as a group and for each tale considered separately. Annotations are arranged chronologically within each section, facilitating a quick grasp of the changing critical attitudes towards these tales, and showing how earlier neglect (resulting from embarrassment at the naughtiness of their subject matter) has given way, in the second half of the twentieth century, to universal admiration for their astonishing artistry. The general introduction and the separate section introductions comment on and evaluate the varying critical approaches. The detailed index facilitates research on particular characters, themes, or approaches, as well as on the work of individual commentators.

Chaucer's Miller's, Reeve's, and Cook's Tales: An Annotated Bibliography 1900-1992 (Chaucer Bibliographies)

Greentree, Rosemary

University of Toronto Press

<p>International Phonetic Alphabet transcriptions of the Poetry of William Barnes in Dorsetshire Dialect of the late 19th century along with an introduction to the poet's life and his developing interests in dialect poetry. Those who become familiar with the IPA sounds in this book will be able to read and recover Barnes's Dialect Poetry. This book comes with an audio CD of the poems that are read by the book's author, Tom Burton.</p>

William Barnes's Dialect Poems: A Pronunciation Guide (with CD)

The Chaucer Studio Press

Lexicographical and Linguistic Studies: Essays in Honour of G.W. Turner

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Ds Brewer

Twisted Hate

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Independently published

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