William Barnes's dialect poems : a pronunciation guide / T.L. Burton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burton, T. L. (Tom L.), 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Barnes, William, 1801-1886--Criticism and interpretation.

Barnes, William.

Barnes, William, 1801-1886.

Dialect poetry, English--England--Dorset--History and criticism.

Dialect poetry, English.

English language--Pronunciation.

English language.

English language--Dialects--Phonology.

English poetry--19th century.

English poetry.

Criticism and interpretation.

England--Dorset.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xx, 288 pages, 1 folded map ; 23 cm + 1 audio disc (50 min. : digital ; 4 3/4 in.) + 1 double-sided chart (22 cm)

Place of Publication:

Adelaide, S. Aust. ; Provo, Utah : Chaucer Studio, [2010]

Contents:

1. Barnes's life and works

2. Some phonetic terminology

3. Chaucer, Shakespeare, and the great vowel shift

4. Barnes's description of nineteenth-century vowels

5. Audio recordings of present-day Dorset speech

6. Written sources

7. Vowels

8. Consonants

9. Poems with phonetic transcripts

App. 1. The "Dissertation on the Dorset dialect of the English language" preface to the 1844 edition ; App. 2. Extracts from the section on "Orthography" in Barnes's 1854 Philological grammar ; App. 3. Barnes's comparative specimen for Winterbourne came ; App. 4. Table of key-rhymes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Accompanying CD entitled: Selected dialect poems by William Barnes read by T.L. Burton.

Double sided chart entitled: "Phonetic symbols used in this guide" and "The IPA vowel chart"

Contains:

Barnes, William, 1801-1886. Poems. Selections

Selected dialect poems by William Barnes read by T.L. Burton

Phonetic symbols used in this guide

The IPA vowel chart

ISBN:

9780842527606

0842527605

OCLC:

694895826