The Sound of William Barnes's Dialect Poems - Vol 1

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by T L Burton

FREE | 2013 | E-book (PDF) | 978-1-922064-49-3 | 614 pp

DOI: https://doi.org/10.20851/barnes-vol-1

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Audio recordingsDuration
Track 1 - The Spring1:51
Track 2 - The woodlands2:10
Track 3 - Liady Day and' ridden house3:39
Track 4 - Easter time3:41
Track 5 - Dock leaves1:41
Track 6 - The blackbird2:11
Track 7 - Woodcom' feäst2:50
Track 8 - The milkmâid o' the farm1:50
Track 9 - The girt woak tree that's in the dell3:00
Track 10 - Vellen the tree4:18
Track 11 - Bringen oon gwâin o' Zundays3:06
Track 12 - Evemen twilight2:06
Track 13 - Evemen in the village1:24
Track 14 - Mây2:42
Track 15 - Bob the fiddler1:14
Track 16 - Hope in Spring2:23
Track 17 - The white road up athirt the hill2:33
Track 18 - The woody holler1:46
Track 19 - Jenny's ribbons1:38
Track 20 - Eclogue: The 'lotments3:21
Track 21 - Eclogue: A Bit o'sly coortèn5:31
Track 22 - Evemen, an' mâidens out at door2:21
Track 23 - The shepherd o' the farm2:12
Track 24 - Vields in the light1:31
Track 25 - Whitsuntide an' club wa'kèn3:09
Track 26 - Woodley1:47
Track 27 - The Brook-that runn'd by Gramfer's3:01
Track 28 - Sleep did come wi' the dew1:45
Track 29 - Sweet music in the wind1:42
Track 30 - Uncle an' Ānt2:32
Track 31 - Havèn oon's fortun a-tuold2:33
Track 32 - Jeän's wedden dae in marnen2:21
Track 33 - Rivers don't gi'e out1:54
Track 34 - Miakèn up a miff1:44
Track 35 - Hây-miakèn2:03
Track 36 - Hây-carrèn2:33
Track 37 - Eclogue: The best man in the vield4:47
Track 38 -Wher did we kip our flagon1:59
Track 39 - Wik's end in Zummer, in the wold vo'ke's time3:39
Track 40 - The meäd a-mowd1:32
Track 41 - The sky a-clearèn2:11
Track 42 - The evemen star o' Zummer1:49
Track 43 - The clote2:02
Track 44 - I got two viel's1:36
Track 45 - Polly be-èn upzides wi' Tom2:02
Track 46 - Be'mi'ster1:23
Track 47 - Thatchèn o' the rick2:56
Track 48 - Bees a-zwarmen1:41
Track 49 - Readèn ov a headstuone1:52
Track 50 - Zummer evermen dānce1:23
Track 51 - Eclogue: Viairies4:23
Track 52 - Carn a turnèn yoller1:17
Track 53 - A-halèn carn1:52
Track 54 - Harvest huome: The vust piart: The supper2:09
Track 55 - Harvest huome: Second piart: What tha done āter supper1:42
Track 56 - A zong ov harvest huome3:28
Track 57 - Poll's jack dā1:56
Track 58 - The ivy1:49
Track 59 - The welshnut tree2:14
Track 60 - Jenny out vrom huome1:21
Track 61 - Grenley water1:37
Track 62 - The viary veet that I da meet1:24
Track 63 - Marnen2:11
Track 64 - Out a-nuttèn2:15
Track 65 - Tiakèn in apples1:17
Track 66 - Miaple leaves be yoller1:22
Track 67 - The weather-beäten tree1:21
Track 68 - Shodon fiair: The vust piart2:11
Track 69 - Shodon fiair: The rest ō't1:33
Track 70 - Martin's tide2:13
Track 71 - Guy Faux's night1:34
Track 72 - Night a-zettèn in1:45
Track 73 - Eclogue: The common a-took in4:07
Track 74 - Eclogue: Two farms in oone3:58
Track 75 - The vrost1:27
Track 76 - A bit o' fun1:56
Track 77 - Fanny's bethdae2:54
Track 78 - What Dick an' I done2:56
Track 79 - Grammer's shoes2:27
Track 80 - Zunsheen in the Winter2:10
Track 81 - The weepèn liady2:37
Track 82 - The happy daes when I wer young2:16
Track 83 - In the stillness o' the night1:11
Track 84 - The settle an' the girt wood vire2:55
Track 85 - The carter1:52
Track 86 - Christmas invitation1:39
Track 87 - Keepèn up o' Chris'mas1:25
Track 88 - Zittèn out the wold year2:17
Track 89 - Woak wer good enough oonce2:13
Track 90 - Miary-Ann's chile2:30
Track 91 - Eclogue: Faether come huome4:14
Track 92 - Eclogue: a ghost4:28
Track 93 - A zong1:14
Track 94 - The mâid var my bride2:04
Track 95 - The huomestead1:35
Track 96 - The farmer's woldest daeter1:55
Track 97 - Uncle out o' debt an' out o' dannger4:23
Track 98 - The church an happy zunday2:17
Track 99 - The wold waggon2:39
Track 100 - The common a-took in1:59
Track 101 - A wold friend1:27
Track 102 - The ruose that deck'd her breast1:46
Track 103 - Nanny's cow1:44
Track 104 - The shep'erd buoy1:58
Track 105 - Hope a-left behine2:19
Track 106 - A good faether1:16
Track 107 - The beam in Grenley Church2:17
Track 108 - The vâices that be gone1:52
Track 109 - Poll1:40
Track 110 - Looks a-knowd avore2:12
Track 111 - The music o' the dead1:45
Track 112 - The pliace a tiales a tuold o'1:58
Track 113 - Ānt's tantrums1:43
Track 114 - The stuonen puorch2:45
Track 115 - Farmers' sons2:00
Track 116 - Jeän1:24
Track 117 - The dree woaks2:26
Track 118 - The huomestead a-vell into han'3:08
Track 119 - The d'rection post2:05
Track 120 - Jeän o' Grenley Mill2:11
Track 121 - The bells of Alderburnham2:11
Track 122 - The girt wold house o' mossy stuone5:14
Track 123 - Eclogue: The times13:37
Track 124 - A witch2:46

Recorded by T L Burton.

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 first volume of a series. See Volume 2 and  Volume 3.

About the author

T L Burton is an Emeritus Professor in the Discipline of English and Creative Writing at Adelaide University, where he taught for nearly forty years. 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).

Reviews

'[This] book is a wonder in the many things it does and in doing them all well ... Burton has made a serious contribution to freeing those [poems] in dialect from a dismissible specialness ... His care is a good foundation for treating the poems as poems should be treated — read, enjoyed, and pondered.'

Marcia Karp in Essays in Criticism

'Burton’s methodology is strictly and soundly philological ... It is very difficult to reproduce an accurate historical pronunciation in a natural-sounding way, but Burton’s lively readings of the poems achieve this ... William Barnes’s Dialect Poems: A Pronunciation Guide is a very welcome addition to the growing field of scholarship on 19th-century English.'

Joan C. Beal in Anglia

'Professor Burton’s Pronunciation Guide is a landmark in Barnes studies and its appearance is timely ... it is remarkably readable ... Students of Barnes’s work and, indeed, all readers of his poetry, will in future be indebted to this very comprehensive Pronunciation Guide.'

Frances Austin-Jones, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society

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