Title: Poems of rural life
Subtitle: in the Dorset dialect
First published: 1893
Description: Beautiful poems in the Dorset dialect. Quite comprehensible but containing a number of words which might not be understood outside Dorset. Barnes inspired Thomas Hardy to a large extent.
Subjects: Country life, Dialect poetry, English, English Dialect poetry, Poetry, Dialects, English language, Dictionaries, Languages, Texts
Places: Dorset, Dorset (England), England, Dorset (Englandl)
People: See Thomas Hardy
Time periods: Mid nineteenth century