THE SALAMANCA CORPUS:

DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF ENGLISH DIALECT TEXTS

YORKSHIRE

DING 2012: "Born in Devonshire, he was educated at the University of London and at University College, Aberystwyth, and received his Ph. D. from Strasbourg with a thesis on “The interpretation of Nature in English Poetry from Beowulf to Shakespeare”. He became a lecturer at the Yorkshire College which was to become the University of Leeds in 1904.  He was later appointed Professor of the English Language there. He had a keen interest on Yorkshire dialect as shown by his publications on Yorkshire place names, his anthologies of Yorkshire poetry, and his short tales and poems written in the dialect.”

WORKS

1910. The Place-Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Leeds: Privately Printed for the Thoresby     Society.

1916. Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and Traditional Poems. London: Published for the Yorkshire Dialect Society by Sidgwick and Jackson, Ltd. SC.

1918. Songs of the Ridings. London: E. Mathews.

1919. Plays of the Ridings. London: E. Mathews.

19120. Tales of the Ridings. London: E. Mathews

1920. More Tales of the Ridings. London: E. Mathews.

KINGKONG PROJECT

Prof, Frederic William MOORMAN (M: 1872 Sep 8 - 1919 Sep 8)

              William Browne [n|1897]

               The Interpretation Of Nature In English Poetry From Beowulf.. [n|1905]

               Robert Herrick [b|1910]

               The Place Names Of The West Riding Of Yorkshire [n|1910]

               Plays Of Uncertain Authorship Attributed To Shakespeare [n|1910]

               Cavalier Lyrists [n|1911]

               A Yorkshire Folk-Play And Its Analogues [1911]

               English Place-Names And Teutonic Sagas [n|1914]

               The May King [d|pub:1914]

               Shakespeare, 1616-1916 [n|1915]

2888     Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915); and, Traditional Poems (ed) [p|1916]

3232     Songs Of The Ridings [p|1918]

18173    Tales Of The Ridings [1919]

               Plays Of The Ridings [1919]

18260    More Tales Of The Ridings [1920]

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT HIS LIFE AND WORKS SEE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._W._Moorman

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/features/0502moorman.html

Marshall, William. 2011. "An Eistefodd for Yorkshire? Professor Moorman and the Uses of Dialect". The Creation of Yorkshireness: Cultural Identities in Yorkshire c. 1850-1918. Ph. D. Thesis, University of Huddersfield: 190-203. [http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/12302/1/W._Marshall_PhD_thesis.pdf, accessed December 15th, 2018]

Vaughan, C. 1920. “Memoir”. Tales of the Ridings. London: E. Mathews: 7-20.

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Frederic William Moorman

(1872-1919)