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English writer, poet, clergyman, and philologist
William Barnes
Works
Poetry
- Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect (First collection) (1844)
- Hwomely Rhymes: A Second Collection of Poems in the Dorset Dialect (1859)
- Poems of Rural Life, in the Dorset Dialect, (Third collection) (1862)
- Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, the three collections combined (1879) (transcription project)
- Poems, Partly of Rural Life (in National English) (1846) (external scan)
- Poems of Rural Life in Common English (1868) (external scan)
- Select poems of William Barnes (1908) (edited by Thomas Hardy)
Philology
- An Investigation of the Laws of Case in Language (1840)
- Se Gefylsta, an Anglo-Saxon Delectus (1849).
- A Philological Grammar Grounded Upon English, and Formed from a Comparison of More Than Sixty Languages (1854) (external scan)
- Tiw; or, A view of the roots and stems of the English as a Teutonic tongue (1862)
- A Grammar and Glossary of the Dorset Dialect, with the History, Outspreading, and Bearings of South-Western English (1863)
- An Outline of English Speech-craft (1878)
Other Works
- A few Words on the Advantages of a More Common Adoption of The Mathematics as a Branch of Education (1834)
- Mathematical Investigation of the Principle of Hanging Doors, Gates, Swing Bridges, and other Heavy Bodies (1835)
- Humilis Domus: some Thoughts on the Abodes, Life, and Social Condition of the Poor, especially in Dorsetshire (1849)
- Notes on Ancient Britain and the Britons (1858) (external scan)
- Views of Labour and Gold (1859) (external scan)
- Early England and the Saxon English (1869) (external scan)
- An Outline of Redecraft or Logic (1879)
Works about Barnes
- Baxter, Lucy E. (as “Scott, Leader”) (1887) The Life of William Barnes, Poet and Philologist (external scan)
- "Barnes, William," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
- "Barnes, William," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Barnes, William," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1901) in 3 vols.
- Venn, J.; Venn, J. A., eds. (1922–1958). “Barnes, William”. Alumni Cantabrigienses. Cambridge University Press.
- Jacobs, Wills D. (1952) William Barnes, Linguist (external scan)
Works by this author published before January 1, 1927 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.
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