The Complete Poems of William Barnes - 9780199567522

The Complete Poems of William BarnesVolume I: Poems in the Broad Form of the Dorset Dialect\nAuthor(s): T. L. Burton, K. K. Ruthven\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Oxford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780199567522, 978-0199567522\nSynopsis\nThis is the first volume of Oxford's three-volume edition of The Complete Poems of William Barnes. William Barnes [tel] 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 [tel], 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 E.