1st Edition

Collected Prose Works of William Barnes

Edited By Richard Bradbury
2860 Pages
by Routledge

William Barnes' reputation as one of the pre-eminent British "dialect" poets, the equal of Robert Burns and John Clare, is being increasingly recognized. The range of his writings is extraordinary as evidenced by the contents of this collection, which includes works on etymology, philology, topography, mathematics, ancient history and economics. This collection displays the full diversity of... Read more

Introduction Richard Bradbury 48pp

Orra: a Lapland Tale [1822] 37pp

A Catechism of Government in General ... [1833] 21pp

A Few Words on the Advantages of ... Mathematics [1834] 23pp

A Mathematical Investigation of the Principle of Hanging Doors ... [1835] 12pp

An Arithmetical and Commercial Dictionary [1840] 76pp

An Investigation of the Laws of Case in Language [1840] 49pp

The Elements of English Grammar [1842] 120pp

The Elements of Linear Perspective and the projection of Shadows [1842] 57pp

Dissertation on the Dorset Dialect of the English Language [1844] 37pp

Se Gefylsta: an Anglo-Saxon Delectus, Serving as a First Class-book of the Language [1849] 84pp

Humilis Domus [1849] 40pp reset

A Philological Grammar, Grounded upon English [1854] 322pp

Notes on Ancient Britain and the Britons [1858] 175pp

Views of Labour and Gold [1859] 190pp

TIW: or, a View of the roots and Stems of the English as a Teutonic Tongue [1862] 348pp

A Grammar and Glossary of the Dorset Dialect [1863] 103pp

A Glossary of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy [1867] 144pp

Early England and the Saxon-Enlsih [1869] 181pp

An Outline of English Speech-Craft [1878] 100pp

An Outline of English Rede-Craft, with English Wording [1880] 64pp

A Guide to Dorchester [c1881] 35pp

A Glossary of the Dorset Dialect, with a Grammar of its Word Shapening and Wording [1886] 132pp

The Life of William Barnes [1887] 372pp

William Barnes, A Biographical Note, Lucy Baxter [1894] 10pp

Thomas Hardy

Biography

Richard Bradbury