Author:William Barnes

William Barnes
(1801–1886)

William Barnes

Works

Poetry

• Index of titles
• Index of first lines

• 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)
• "Barnes, William," in Men of the Time (eleventh edition), by Thompson Cooper, London: George Routledge and Sons (1884)