Folk-Speech of Cumberland and Some Districts Adjacent: Being Short Stories and Rhymes in the Dialects of the West Border CountiesGibson, Alexander Craig
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Folk-Speech of Cumberland and Some Districts Adjacent: Being Short Stories and Rhymes in the Dialects of the West Border Counties
Gibson, Alexander Craig
English language -- Dialects -- England -- Cumberland -- Texts
In her songs, whether in pure English, or in the Cumbrian or Scottish
dialect, she is animated, simple, and tender, often touching a chord
which thrills a sympathetic string deep in the reader’s bosom. It may,
indeed, be confidently predicted of several of these lyrics, that they
will live with the best productions of their age, and longer than many
that were at first allowed to rank more highly.—_Chambers’ Journal,
1842._
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ROBERT ANDERSON’S CUMBERLAND BALLADS.
As a portrayer of rustic manners—as a relator of homely incident—as
a hander down of ancient customs, and of ways of life fast wearing or
worn out—as an exponent of the feelings, tastes, habits, and language
of the most interesting class in a most interesting district, and
in some other respects, we hold Anderson to be unequalled, not in
Cumberland only, but in England. As a description of a long, rapid,
and varied succession of scenes—every one a photograph—occurring at a
gathering of country people intent upon enjoying themselves in their
own uncouth roystering fashion, given in rattling, jingling, regularly
irregular rhymes, with a chorus that is of itself a concentration of
uproarious fun and revelry, we have never read or heard anything like
Anderson’s “Worton Wedding.”—_Whitehaven Herald._
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POEMS BY MRS. WILSON TWENTYMAN, of EVENING HILL. Dedicated, by
permission, to H. W. LONGFELLOW.
_From the ILLUSTRATED TIMES, November 7th, 1868._
Her verses are occasionally poetical, and always dictated by some
fine genuine feeling, which must come home to an honest reader. She
does not write about “Men and Women,” as Mrs. Browning calls two of
her most beautiful volumes, but about human nature—i.e., our hopes,
fears, loves, aspirations, etc., are never personified and put into
the dramatic form. The volume consists of short pieces, and the whole
domestic morality of them will be fairly appreciated in houses where
Longfellow is looked upon as the one poet.
_From the CARLISLE EXPRESS, January 8th, 1869._
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