![]() Lines 3–18 of ‘My Orcha'd in Linden Lea’ contain no long i sounds. This bizarre device is one of Barnes's favourites. As copies are quite rare, I have quoted in full all the poems I discuss in detail.ģ. Unfortunately the proofreading was poor, so 1 have silently corrected a few minor and obvious errors. I have incorporated into the text other references to this volume, the only complete modern edition of the dialect poems. ed, The Poems of William Barnes (London: Centaur Press 1962), I, 233. I make no such claims for my own ‘The Hallowed Pleäces of William Barnes,’ Victorian Poetry, 23 (Summer 1985), 109–24.Ģ. Keith's The Poetry of Nature (University of Toronto Press 1980) is a recent, valuable exception. Most criticism of Barnes is so impressionistic as to be almost useless, but the chapter in W.J. Assistant Professor of English, Lansdowne College, London, Englandġ. ![]()
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