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1902Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories
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1904Sherlock Holmes
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1908Christabel Pankhurst
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1912Captain Scott's Diary
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1913G. B. Shaw's Pygmalion
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1914Suffragettes protest
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1917Wilfred Owen: WWI poetry
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1925Art in poetry
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1925Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
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1928Nottinghamshire dialect
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1929BBC English
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1939Wanted poster for Hitler
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1939World War II ultimatum letter
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1943Make Do and Mend
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1948Immigration from India
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1955Chinese restaurants
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1959Paul Robeson's Othello
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1960Sylvia Plath
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1964The Beatles in the USA
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1969Man lands on the moon
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1970Women's liberation magazine
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1973J.G. Ballard, Crash
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1976Punk fanzine
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1976The Sex Pistols
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1984J.G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun
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1991Angela Carter, Wise Children
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Intro
DH Lawrence (1885–1930) is best known for his novels, several of which include dialogue in the dialect of his native Nottinghamshire. Less well known is his dialect poetry as illustrated here by ‘The Collier’s Wife’. The poem is typical of the genre, juxtaposing the tragic and the comic in working-class life. Its great strength is the convincing dialogue, with its colloquial rhythms and idiom.
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The lines th’art a mard-arsed kid, e’ll gie thee socks (you’re a sullen child, he’ll give you a beating) contain dialect words and grammar and capture local pronunciation. The successive use of such phrases portrays vividly an East Midlands dialect that had seldom before appeared in print.
DH Lawrence, The Collected Poems of DH Lawrence, 1928.
Shelfmark: X.989/11689.
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