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Dorset dialect

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writings of Barnes

  • William Barnes, portrait by G. Stuckey, c. 1870; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
    In William Barnes

    His first Dorset dialect poems were published in the Dorset County Chronicle (1833–34). His many books include an Anglo-Saxon primer (1849), An Outline of English Speech-Craft (1878), Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect (two series: 1844, 1862), Hwomely Rhymes (1859), and Poems of Rural Life…

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