Contents
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Contents
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Front Matter
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of illustrations and maps
- Abbreviations
- Close sectionGeneral introduction
- Beginnings
- Dialect and dialectologies
- The anglo-saxon connection
- Re-saxonizing the english language
- County dialects?
- Writing the dorset dialect
- Vanishing dialects?
- Dialect poetry
- Poets and rhymesters
- Dorset doric
- Decorum: sanitizing the dialect
- Dialect as poetry
- The 1844 volume
- The seasonal structure
- Names and places: actual or imaginary?
- Generic mutations
- The art of artlessness
- The immediate reception
- Textual introduction
- A Dissertation on the Dorset Dialect of the English Language
- Close sectionPoems in the 1844 Collection
- Close sectionSpring
- The Spring
- The Woodlands
- Liady-Day an' Ridden House
- Easter Time
- Dock Leaves
- The Blackbird
- Woodcom' Feäst
- The Milk-Mâid o' the Farm
- The Girt Woak Tree That's in the Dell
- Vellen the Tree
- Bringen Oon Gwâin o' Zundays
- Evemen Twilight
- Evemen in the Village
- Mây
- Bob the Fiddler
- Hope in Spring
- The White Road up Athirt the Hill
- The Woody Holler
- Jenny's Ribbons
- Eclogue: The 'Lotments
- Eclogue: A Bit o' Sly Coortèn
- Close sectionSummer
- Evemen, an' Mâidens Out at Door
- The Shepherd o' the Farm
- Vields in the Light
- Whitsuntide an' Club Wa'kèn
- Woodley
- The Brook that Runn'd by Gramfer's
- Sleep Did Come wi' the Dew
- Sweet Music in the Wind
- Uncle an' Ānt
- Havèn Oon's Fortun A-Tuold
- Jeän's Weddèn Dae in Marnen
- Rivers Don't Gi'e Out
- Miakèn up a Miff
- Hây-Miakèn
- Hây-Carrèn
- Eclogue: The Best Man in the Vield
- Wher We Did Kip Our Flagon
- Wik's End in Zummer, in the Wold Vo'ke's Time
- The Meäd A-Mow'd
- The Sky A-Clearèn
- The Evemen Star o' Zummer
- The Clote
- I Got Two Viel's
- Polly Be-èn Upzides wi' Tom
- Be'mi'ster
- Thatchèn o' the Rick
- Bees A-Zwarmen
- Readèn ov a Headstuone
- Zummer Evemen Dānce
- Eclogue: Viairies
- Close sectionFall
- Carn A-Turnèn Yoller
- A-Halèn Carn
- Harvest Huome: The Vust Piart: The Supper
- Harvest Huome: Second Piart: What Tha Done Āter Supper
- A Zong ov Harvest Huome
- Poll's Jack Dā
- The Ivy
- The Welshnut Tree
- Jenny Out vrom Huome
- Grenley Water
- The Viary Veet That I Da Meet
- Marnen
- Out A-Nuttèn
- Tiakèn In Apples
- Miaple Leaves Be Yoller
- The Weather-Beäten Tree
- Shoden Fiair: The Vust Piart
- Shoden Fiair: The Rest ō't
- Martin's Tide
- Guy Faux's Night
- Night A-Zettèn In
- Eclogue: The Common A-Took In
- Eclogue: Two Farms in Oone
- Close sectionWinter
- The Vrost
- A Bit o' Fun
- Fanny's Bethdae
- What Dick an' I Done
- Grammer's Shoes
- Zunsheen in the Winter
- The Weepèn Liady
- The Happy Daes When I Wer Young
- In the Stillness o' the Night
- The Settle an' the Girt Wood Vire
- The Carter
- Christmas Invitation
- Keepèn Up o' Chris'mas
- Zittèn Out the Wold Year
- Woak Wer Good Enough Oonce
- Miary-Ann's Chile
- Eclogue: Faether Come Huome
- Eclogue: A Ghost
- Close sectionMiscellaneous Pieces
- A Zong
- The Mâid var My Bride
- The Huomestead
- The Farmer's Woldest Daeter
- Uncle Out o' Debt an' Out o' Dannger
- The Church an' Happy Zunday
- The Wold Waggon
- The Common A-Took In
- A Wold Friend
- The Ruose That Deck'd Her Breast
- Nanny's Cow
- The Shep'erd Buoy
- Hope A-Left Behine
- A Good Faether
- The Beam in Grenley Church
- The Vâices That Be Gone
- Poll
- Looks A-Know'd Avore
- The Music o' the Dead
- The Pliace a Tiale's A-Tuold O'
- Ānt's Tantrums
- The Stuonen Puorch
- Farmer's Sons
- Jeän
- The Dree Woaks
- The Huomestead A-Vell into Han'
- The D'rection Post
- Jeän o' Grenley Mill
- The Bells of Alderburnham
- The Girt Wold House o' Mossy Stuone
- Eclogue: The Times
- A Witch
- Close sectionSpring
- Close sectionPoems Not Included in the 1844 Collection
- A Glossary of the Dorset Dialect of the English Language
- Close section End Matter
