{"product_id":"9781474401050-william-barnes-dialect-poems-in-the-dorset-county-chronicle","title":"William Barnes, Dialect Poems in the Dorset County Chronicle","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA scholarly edition of William Barnes’s Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect as published in the Dorset County Chronicle.\u003cbr\u003eIt is commonly believed that William Barnes (1801 1886) steered  clear of politics in his poetry. Yet, the first poem he ever published  in the Dorset dialect was an attack on the enclosures of the village  commons in the 1830s. His next eight poems dealt with such topics as  rural poverty, penury-induced emigration, the Poor Laws and Corn Laws,  and the People's Charter of 1838. This edition of his dialect poems    arranged in the chronological order of their first publication in the Dorset County Chronicle    exposes the fallacy of the old assumptions about Barnes's lack of  interest in political affairs. It shows the gradual development of  Barnes's artistry as a poet and of the linguistic means through which he  set out to represent in writing the key features of the dialect of his  native Blackmore Vale.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41607537098849,"sku":"9781474401050","price":210.32,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_39014812.jpg?v=1767077785","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781474401050-william-barnes-dialect-poems-in-the-dorset-county-chronicle","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}