Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 March 2018
Summary
This is the third volume in a series that sets out to provide a phonemic transcript and an audio recording of each poem in Barnes's three collections of Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect.
The individual volumes in the series are not designed to be critical editions: they do not contain variant readings from different versions of the poems or detailed notes on matters of linguistic, literary, social, historical, or biographical interest. The aim is simply to provide a self-contained, uncluttered, and reader-friendly text, which may be read on-screen or on the page, with marginal glosses for any words or phrases that might cause difficulty, together with audio recordings that may be freely audited online.
In addition to the many kind friends whose help is acknowledged in the Pronunciation Guide from which this series derives I wish particularly to thank John Emerson, Director of the University of Adelaide Press, and his staff, for their unshakeable patience and their staunch support.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Sound of William Barnes's Dialect Poems , pp. ix - xPublisher: The University of Adelaide PressPrint publication year: 2017