Complete Poems of William Barnes: Volume 2: Poems in the Modified Form of the Dorset Dialect

by K.K. Ruthven

This is the second volume of Oxford's three-volume edition of The Complete Poems of William Barnes. Volume II contains all the poems Barnes wrote in the modified form of the Dorset dialect that he used from the mid 1850s onwards: those in the second and third collections of his Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect (1859 and 1862); those from the first collection (1844), originally written in the broad form of the dialect and here re-written in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199567530
• ISBN13: 9780199567539
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 848 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"