Six eclogues from William Barnes's Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect (first collection, 1884) : : with phonemic transcripts / / by T.L. Burton, and an audio recording from the 2010 Adelaide Fringe.

• VerfasserIn: Barnes, William, 1801-1866,
• TeilnehmendeR: Burton, T. L. 1944-
• Place / Publishing House: Adelaide : : The University of Adelaide Press,, 2011.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 55 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

When William Barnes began publishing poems in the Dorset County Chronicle in the 1830s in the dialect of his native Blackmore Vale, the first poems that appeared were in the form of eclogues - dialogues between country people on country matters. The phonemic transcripts in this book, based on the findings in T. L. Burton's William Barnes's Dialect Poems: A Pronunciation Guide (2010), show what the poems would have sounded like in Barnes's own time; the accompanying audio recordings (made at the 2010 Adelaide Fringe) give living voice to the sounds noted in the transcripts.

Table of Contents

Key to phonetic symbols -- Alternative pronunciations -- Table of common alternatives -- Eclogue: The Common A-Took In -- Eclogue: Viairies -- Eclogue: Faether Come Huome -- Eclogue: The Best Man in the Vield -- Eclogue: Emigration -- Eclogue: A Bit o' Sly Coortèn -- Notes -- Flyer from the 2010 Adelaide Fringe -- Cast (in order of appearance) -- Casting of the individual eclogues.