Name: Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and Traditional Poems
Price: 30.95 CAD
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Author: Frederic William Moorman
ISBN: 978-1721946174

Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and Traditional Poems

By Frederic William Moorman 18 Apr, 2019

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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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