Frederic William Moorman

Frederic William Moorman
Frederic William Moorman (1872–1919) was an English academic, poet, and writer who specialized in English literature and folklore. He was a professor at the University of Leeds and one of the founders of the Yorkshire Dialect Society. Moorman is best known for his work on the collection and preservation of Yorkshire dialect poetry, and he edited anthologies such as "Yorkshire Dialect Poems" and "Songs of the Ridings". In addition to his contributions to dialect studies, he wrote plays and poetry, including "The Ancient Mariner and Other Poems".

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Preface Several anthologies of poems by Yorkshiremen, or about Yorkshiremen, have passed through the press since Joseph Ritson published his Yorkshire Garland in 1786. Most of these have included a number of dialect poems, but I believe that the volume which the reader now holds in his hand is the first which is made up entirely of poems written in "broad Yorkshire." In my choice of poems I... more...

Melsh Dick is the last survivor of our woodland divinities. His pedigree reaches back to the satyrs and dryads of Greek mythology; he claims kinship with the fauns that haunted the groves of leafy Tibur, and he lorded it in the green woods of merry England when The woodweele sang and wold not cease,Sitting upon the spraye,Soe lowde he wakened Robin HoodIn the greenwood where he lay. But he has long... more...

Frederic Moorman came of a stock which, on both sides, had struck deep roots in the soil of Devon. His father's family, which is believed to have sprung ultimately from "either Cornwall or Scotland"—a sufficiently wide choice, it may be thought—had for many generations been settled in the county.(1) His mother's—her maiden name was Mary Honywill—had for centuries held land at... more...