John Hartley (poet)
Encyclopedia
John Hartley was an English
poet
who worked in the Yorkshire
dialect
. He wrote a great deal of prose and poetry – often of a sentimental nature – dealing with the poverty of the district. He was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire
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Hartly wrote and edited the Original Illuminated Clock Almanack from 1866 to his death.
Most of Hartley's works are written in dialect
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Hartley wrote a number of books featuring the character "Sammywell Grimes", who has a number of adventures and suffers unfortunate mishaps.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
poet
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
who worked in the Yorkshire
Yorkshire
Yorkshire is a historic county of northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been increasingly undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform...
dialect
Dialect
The term dialect is used in two distinct ways, even by linguists. One usage refers to a variety of a language that is a characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers. The term is applied most often to regional speech patterns, but a dialect may also be defined by other factors,...
. He wrote a great deal of prose and poetry – often of a sentimental nature – dealing with the poverty of the district. He was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire
Halifax, West Yorkshire
Halifax is a minster town, within the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England. It has an urban area population of 82,056 in the 2001 Census. It is well-known as a centre of England's woollen manufacture from the 15th century onward, originally dealing through the Halifax Piece...
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Hartly wrote and edited the Original Illuminated Clock Almanack from 1866 to his death.
Most of Hartley's works are written in dialect
Dialect
The term dialect is used in two distinct ways, even by linguists. One usage refers to a variety of a language that is a characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers. The term is applied most often to regional speech patterns, but a dialect may also be defined by other factors,...
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Hartley wrote a number of books featuring the character "Sammywell Grimes", who has a number of adventures and suffers unfortunate mishaps.
Works
- Yorkshire Ditties, First Series
- Yorkshire Ditties, Second Series
- Yorkshire Tales, First Series
- Yorkshire Tales, Second Series
- Yorkshire Lyrics
- Pensive Poems and Startling Stories
- A Rolling Stone. A Tale of Wrongs and Revenge
- Mally An' Me : A selection of Humorous and Pathetic Incidents from the Life of Sammywell Grimes and His Wife Mally
- Yorksher Puddin
- A Sheaf from the Moorland - A Collection of Original Poems
- Grimes' Visit To Th' Queen. A Royal Time Amang Royalties
- Seets I'Lundun: A Yorkshireman's Ten Days' Trip
- Seets i' Yorkshire and Lancashire or Grimes' Comical Trip from Leeds to Liverpool by Canal
- Seets i' Blackpool - Grimes at the Seaside
- Seets i’ Paris - Sammywell Grimes’s trip with his old chum Billy Baccus; his opinion o’th’ French, and th’ French opinion o’th’ exhibition he made ov hissen.
- Grimes’ Trip to America - Ten letters from Sammywell to John Jones Smith
- Sammywell Grimes An' his Wife Mally Laikin I' Lakeland: A Humorous Account of their Visit to the Home of Famous Poets, &c., &c.
External links
- Yorkshire Ditties by John Hartley - Link fails 25th October 2008 - permissions
- John Hartley at Old Poetry