The Sound of William Barnes’s Dialect Poems – Volume 3 Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, third collection (1862)

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By T L Burton

FREE | 2017 | E-book (PDF) | 978-1-925261-58-5 | 456 pp

DOI: https://doi.org/10.20851/barnes-vol-3

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Audio recordingsDuration
Track 1 Woone smile mwore2:04
Track 2 - The echo2:03
Track 3 - Vull a man2:12
Track 4 - Naïghbour plaÿmeätes 2:44
Track 5 - The lark1:13
Track 6 - The two churches2:05
Track 7 - Woak Hill2:04
Track 8 - The hedger1:46
Track 9 - In the Spring1:29
Track 10 - The flood in Spring1:51
Track 11 - Comèn hwome1:17
Track 12 - Grammer a-crippled2:53
Track 13 - The castle ruins2:15
Track 14 - Eclogue: John, Jealous at Shroton Feäir3:53
Track 15 - Early plaÿmeäte2:21
Track 16 - Pickèn o' scroff2:10
Track 17 - Good night1:19
Track 18 - Went hwome1:36
Track 19 - The hollow woak1:11
Track 20 - Childern's childern2:24
Track 21 - The rwose in the dark1:14
Track 22 - Come1:02
Track 23 - Zummer winds2:00
Track 24 - The neäme letters2:22
Track 25 - The new house a-gettèn wold1:24
Track 26 - Zunday1:47
Track 27 - The pillar'd geäte3:32
Track 28 - Zummer stream1:41
Track 29 - Linda Deäne1:43
Track 30 - Eclogue: Come and zee us in the zummer1:31
Track 31 - Lindenore1:19
Track 32 - Me'th below the tree2:30
Track 33 - Treat well your wife2:35
Track 34 - The child an' the mowers1:47
Track 35 - The love child2:24
Track 36 - Hawthorn Down1:16
Track 37 - Oben vields1:50
Track 38 - What John wer a-tellèn his mis'ess out in the corn ground1:39
Track 39 - Sheädes1:08
Track 40 - Times o' year1:14
Track 41 - Eclogue: Racketèn Joe2:35
Track 42 - Zummer an' winter0:51
Track 43 - To me2:28
Track 44 - Two an' two1:26
Track 45 - The lew o' the rick1:36
Track 46 - The wind in woone's feäce1:04
Track 47 - Tokens1:11
Track 48 - Tweil3:01
Track 49 - Fancy1:21
Track 50 - The broken heart1:17
Track 51 - Evenèn light1:37
Track 52 - Vields by watervalls1:48
Track 53 - The wheel routs2:07
Track 54 - Nanny's new abode1:49
Track 55 - Leaves a-vallèn1:40
Track 56 - Lizzie1:15
Track 57 - Blessèns a-left2:14
Track 58 - Fall time1:16
Track 59 - Fall1:12
Track 60 - The zilver-weed0:56
Track 61 - The widow's house1:51
Track 62 - The child's greäve2:10
Track 63 - Went vrom hwome1:15
Track 64 - The fancy feäir at Maïden Newton2:01
Track 65 - Things do come round3:01
Track 66 - Zummer thoughts in winter time1:09
Track 67 - I'm out o' door1:47
Track 68 - Grief an' gladness1:24
Track 69 - Slidèn1:52
Track 70 - Lwonesomeness1:37
Track 71 - A snowy night1:25
Track 72 - The year-clock4:14
Track 73 - Not goo hwome to-night3:05
Track 74 - The humstrum2:05
Track 75 - Shaftesbury Feäir2:48
Track 76 - The beäten path2:38
Track 77 - Ruth a-ridèn2:50
Track 78 - Beauty undecked0:41
Track 79 - My love is good1:54
Track 80 - Heedless o' my love1:42
Track 81 - The Do'set militia2:40
Track 82 - A Do'set sale1:08
Track 83 - Don't ceäre2:54
Track 84 - Changes [I]1:42
Track 85 - Kindness2:10
Track 86 - Withstanders2:07
Track 87 - Daniel Dwithen, the wise chap2:11
Track 88 - Turnèn things off2:41
Track 89 - The giants in treädes3:01
Track 90 - The little worold1:48
Track 91 - Bad news1:22
Track 92 - The turnstile1:49
Track 93 - The better vor zeèn o' you2:20
Track 94 - Pity2:02
Track 95 - John Bloom in Lon'on5:30
Track 96 - A lot o' maïdens a-runnèn the vields4:18

This series, developed from Tom Burton’s groundbreaking study, William Barnes’s Dialect Poems: A Pronunciation Guide (The Chaucer Studio Press, 2010), sets out to demonstrate for the first time what all of Barnes’s dialect poems would have sounded like in the pronunciation of his own time and place. Every poem is accompanied by a facing-page phonemic transcript and by an audio recording freely available from this website. The free PDF includes links to the audio files as well.

This book is the third volume of a series. See Volume 1 and Volume 2.

About the author

T L Burton is an Emeritus Professor in the Discipline of English and Creative Writing at Adelaide University. He taught for nearly forty years at the University of Adelaide. He is the author of William Barnes’s Dialect Poems: A Pronunciation Guide (The Chaucer Studio Press, 2010), and co-editor, with K. K. Ruthven, of The Complete Poems of William Barnes, 3 volumes (Oxford University Press). He has spoken on Barnes at several international conferences and at more than two dozen universities in the UK, USA, and Australia, and has put on readings from Barnes’s poems at four Adelaide Fringe Festivals (2009–2012). 

Review

From reviews of Volume 1 of The Sound of William Barnes’s Dialect Poems

This volume is the first of a series designed to supplement Burton’s William Barnes’s Dialect Poems: A Pronunciation Guide (2010) ... Together, these volumes constitute a monumental project which ‘sets out to provide a phonemic transcript and an audio recording of each individual poem in Barnes’s three collections of Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect’ ... 
 
The driving force behind this project is Burton’s enthusiasm for Barnes’s work and his desire to bring these poems to life for the widest possible audience ... Recordings of Burton’s lively, animated and accurate readings of each poem are provided on a free website hosted by Adelaide University Press, as is a free, searchable pdf version of the text ... 
 
The Sound of William Barnes’s Dialect Poems can ... be used by those without access to the Pronunciation Guide; so the pdf version effectively constitutes a free, comprehensive guide to Barnes’s pronunciation, something for which both the author and the publisher are to be applauded.

Joan C. Beal in Anglia

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