dialect literature 1800-1950 LEICESTERSHIRE VERSE

dialect literature

1800-1950

LEICESTERSHIRE VERSE

Author: Anonymous

Text type: Verse

Date of composition: 1856

Editions: 1856, 1881

Source text:

Anonymous. 1881. Ar Obadoyer, Or Muster Cox’s Coortin’. A Le’stershoyre Pastoral. Sebastian Evans, ed. Leicestershire Words, Phrases and Proverbs. London: Trübner for the English Dialect Society. 33-37.

e-text:

Access and transcription: April 2003

Format: MS Word pdf

Number of words: 1,139

Dialect represented: Leicestershire

Produced by María F. García-Bermejo Giner

Ar Obadoyer, Or Muster Cox’s Coortin’. A Le’stershoyre Pastoral

(1856)

DIALECT LITERATURE

The East Midland

Counties

1500-1700

1700-1800

1800-1950

The Northern Counties

The East Midland Counties

Leicestershire Drama

Leicestershire Prose

Leicestershire Verse

Anonymous

Leicestershire Varia

The West Midland Counties

The Southern Counties