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I have been reading and editting a lot of Yorkshire Dialect poetry of late, especially the work of Dorothy Una Ratcliffe and John Hartley, and am building up a dictionary to help with this rather than keep referring to several books and sites.
To save time and to help other readers I am posting it here.
As with any dictionary it cannot hope to be complete and the meanings can vary with time and place. - Fighting Men was a thin volume of poems published by Elkin Mathews in 1916.
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When I was young and reading and writing was a chore I had to endure I would encounter ideas and phrases that I would never meet in ‘real’ life. Phrases such as “look-ed o’er” instead of the more prosaic overlooked; “treads the fields of Elysium” instead of dead, and hundreds more.
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Poets Laureate.
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ALL THE OTHER CHILDREN is a wonderful book by Miss Cicely Fox Smith that contains black and white pictures of a variety of animals common in England and a few others seen on her travels.
Each is accompanied by a brief commentary on appearance or habits of the creature concerned and a few are also accompanied by one of Miss Fox Smith’s poems. The author was assisted in the preparation of this book by her sister Madge Scott Smith. - An old tradition that remains as popular as ever.
- We should not decry the writing of vernacular poets simply because they do not write in standard English.
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SAILOR TOWN ----- OLDPOETRY LINKS by Jim Saville, from I-Like-RhymesThis set of links is provided to assist readers in finding their way around the poems contained in Cicely Fox Smith's Sailor Town that are reproduced on the Oldpoetry Web-site.
It is a work in progress and more links will be added until the full book is referenced.
JS - The main volume used was Small Craft by Cicely Fox Smith was published by George H. Doran Co., New York, US, © 1919,
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There are over 6,000 poets and nearly 60,000 poems on the oldpoetry website and if I had to pick 7 for myself I would choose the following.
- Contents of the Foremost Trail by Cicely Fox SmithPublished by Sampson Low, Marston & Co., London, UK, (c) 1899,One of M
- Shanties usually bring up the image of a bunch of sailors hauling on ropes on board a sailing ship and that's not wrong, however it is not the whole story.
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* - People say that rhymes are not necessary, that they take the reader's mind away from the subject, that they are just a quick fix for bad poetry;
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Since those distant beginnings there have been millions of words written on the subject. Many of those in the form of great poetry.
- The Duke of Edinburgh's Award started in 1956 as a scheme for teen-aged British boys. As it approaches it's fiftieth anniversary it has become an international
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