Dialect writings by Frederic William Moorman

Poems: (1) Nests (2 ff.); (2) The exile (2 ff.); (3) Blind (2 ff.); (4) The organ-grinder (2 ff.); (5) The organ-grinder [another version] (2 ff.); (6) [Untitled. Begins: "Within the city's precincts lies a park"] (1 f.); (7) [Untitled. Begins: "The peewit calls thee thither"] (1 f.); (8) The flower of Wensleydale (5 ff.); (9) The hungry forties (3 ff.); (10) The miller by the shore (3 ff.); (11) The bride's home-coming (2 ff.); (12) The artist (2 ff.); (13) Marra to Bonney (2 ff.); (14) Mary Mecca (2 ff.); (15) The local preacher (2 ff.); (16) The courting gate (2 ff.); Fieldfares [proof copy, mounted on card, with MS annotations] (1 f.); (18) The flowers of Knaresborough Forest [proof copy, mounted on paper, with MS annotations] (1 f.); (19) A song of the Yorkshire dales (2 ff.); (20) The bells of Kirkby Overblow (3 ff.); (21) The gardener and the robin (2 ff.); (22) Lile Doad (2 ff.); (23) One year older [proof copy, mounted on paper, with MS annotations] (1 f.); (24) A dalesman's litany (3 ff.); (25) Telling the bees (2 ff.); (26) The two lamp-lighters (3 ff.); (27) Our beck [proof copy, mounted on paper, with MS annotations] (1 f.); (28) Lord George (2 ff.); (29) Jenny Storm (3 ff.); (30) The new Englishman [proof copy, with MS annotations and corrections] (1 f.); (31) To the curlew (2 ff.); (32) Then and now (2 ff.); (33) The land o' green ginger [printed, mounted on paper] (1 f.); Plays: (34) Boggard neet (16 ff.); (35) From clogs to clogs (80 ff.); (36) The ewe lamb (26 ff.); (37) The May king (47 ff.); Tales: (38) Coals of fire (39 ff.); (39) The inner voice (26 ff.); (40) A Laocoon of the rocks (19 ff.); (41) Throp's wife [printer's copy, with annotations] (14 ff.); Other writings: (42) Table of contents and preface to his Songs of the Ridings (published 1918) (17 ff.); (43) Yorkshire studies: preface and table of contents (5 ff.); (44) A Yorkshire poet's idyll [chapter 7 of Yorkshire studies?] (31 ff.); (45) Birds in a Leeds garden [chapter 10 of Yorkshire studies?] (30 ff.); (46) In Bolton Woods [chapter 11 of Yorkshire studies?] (33 ff.); (47) Studies in "broad Yorkshire": 1. The dialects of Yorkshire; 2. The Scandinavian element in the Yorkshire dialects [newspaper cuttings from The Yorkshire weekly post, Saturday 21 July 1917 and Saturday 28 July 1917] (2 ff.).

Frederic William Moorman was Professor of English Language at the University of Leeds, from 1912 to 1918

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Presented by the Bishop of Ripon (J. R. H. Moorman), 1971

In English