Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Vernacular Verse, Folk Ballads, and Rural Life from Northern England, 1673–1915By F. W. Moorman
Length2h 42m
About this audiobook
Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673–1915) and Traditional Poems is both anthology and act of cultural preservation, gathering more than two centuries of verse in the speech of Yorkshire's ridings. Its contents range from broadside humour, rustic song, and local satire to elegiac and devotional pieces, revealing dialect not as comic distortion but as a supple literary medium. Set against the wider nineteenth-century interest in folklore, philology, and regional identity, the collection restores vernacular poetry to its proper historical seriousness. F. W. Moorman, a scholar of English language and literature at the University of Leeds, was especially attuned to the relation between place, speech, and literary inheritance. His academic training in medieval and dialect studies, together with his Yorkshire surroundings, informed a project that is at once editorial, linguistic, and patriotic in the best sense: an effort to record forms of expression threatened by standardization and social change. This volume is recommended to readers interested in dialect literature, English regional culture, folk tradition, and the history of popular poetry. It offers not merely curiosities of pronunciation, but living evidence of how communities remember, mock, mourn, and celebrate themselves in their own tongue.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
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GenrePoetry
Length2 hrs 42 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 26, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems (Annotated)
26Aunt Nancy
2Preface
27Coom, don on thy Bonnet an' Shawl (1867)
3Preface (To the Second Edition)
28My awd hat
4INTRODUCTION
29Reeth Bartle Fair(1) (1870)
5POEMS.
30The Christmas Party (1876)
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6An Honest Yorkshireman
31Nelly o' Bob's
7From "Snaith Marsh" (1754)
32Bite Bigger
8When at Hame wi' Dad
33Rollickin' Jack
9I'm Yorkshire too
34Jim's Letter
10The Wensleydale Lad
35A Yorkshire Farmer's Address to a Schoolmaster
11A Song 1.
36The Window on the Cliff Top (1888)
12A Song 2.
37Aar Maggie
13The Invasion: An Ecologue
38Pateley Reaces 1874
14Elegy on the Death of a Frog (1815)
39Play Cricket (1909)
15Sheffield Cutler's Song (1887)
40The File-cutter's Lament to Liberty (1910)
16Address to Poverty
41A Kuss (1912)
17The Collingham Ghost
42Huntin' Song
18The Lucky Dream
43Spring (1914)
19The Milkin'-Time
44Heam, Sweet Heam (1914)
20I Niver can call Her my Wife
45Then an' Nae
21Come to thy Gronny, Doy(1)
46Owd England
22Owd Moxy
47Love and Pie
23Dean't mak gam o' me (1875)
48I's Gotten t' Bliss (1914)
24Coom, stop at yam to-neet Bob
49A Natterin' Wife
25Ode to t' Mooin
50O! What do ye Wesh i' the Beck
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