Ridgeway Reading Session Notes

Although this South Dorset Ridgeway project has now finished, both the project reading list and session notes can be found on this blog, allowing you to enjoy and explore the works mentioned before reading and commenting on notes from the group sessions. Please find the Reading List at this top of this page, and the Session Notes in the archive on the right hand side

Wednesday, 21 October 2015

The Poetry of William Barnes

The Roots & Ridgeway groups welcomed Brian Caddy of the William Barnes Society to sessions where the poetry of Barnes was discussed...

These poems give a good introduction to the works of William Barnes and can be viewed free on-line at:
http://www.gutenberg.org  Poems of Rural Life

First Collection
The Blackbird
Vellen o’ the Tree
Eclogue: The ‘Lotments
Uncle and Aunt
Hay-Meaken
The Clote
Shroden Feair: The Vu’ust Peart
Shroden Feair: The Rest o’t
The Happy Days When I wer Young
The Carter
Eclogue: Father Come Hwome

Sundry Pieces
The Hwomestead
Uncle out o’ debt an’ out o’ danger
The Wold Waggon
The Common a-took in
The Music of the Dead
The Hwomestead a-vell into Hand
Eclogue: The Times

Second Collection
My Orcha’d in Linden Lea
Ellen Brine ov Allenburn
Childhood
Meary’s Smile
Meary Wedded
The Young that died in Beauty
Minden House
The Wold Wall
Zun-zet
The Winter Crowvoot
Trees be Company
False friends-like
The Wife a-lost
The Bwoat
Pentridge by the River
My Love’s Guardian Angel

Third Collection:
The Lark
Woak Hill
Picken o’ Scroff
The Rwose in the Dark
The Child an’ the Mowers
The Turnstile

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