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Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and Traditional Poems

By Frederic William Moorman

2019-04-18 22:18:37

Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems by Frederic William Moorman Several anthologies of poems by Yorkshiremen, or about Yorkshiremen, have passed through the press since Joseph Ritson published his Yorkshire Garland in 1786. Most ... Read more
Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems by Frederic William Moorman Several anthologies of poems by Yorkshiremen, or about Yorkshiremen, have passed through the press since Joseph Ritson published his Yorkshire Garland in 1786. Most of these have included a number of dialect poems, but I believe that the volume which the reader now holds in his hand is the first which is made up entirely of poems written in "broad Yorkshire." In my choice of poems, I have been governed entirely by the literary quality and popular appeal of the material which lay at my disposal. This anthology has not been compiled for the philologist, but for those who have learned to speak "broad Yorkshire" at their mother's knee, and have not wholly unlearnt it at their schoolmaster's desk. To such the variety and interest of these poems, no less than the considerable range of time over which their composition extends, will, I believe, come as a surprise. Less

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File size102.333 KB
Print pages94
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2016-05-10
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1721946174
Frederic William Moorman was a poet and playwright, and Professor of English Language at the University of Leeds from 1912 to 1918. Wikipedia Born: 1872 Died: 1919 Spouse: Frances Beatrice Humpidge...

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