Victorian

J. H. Eccles

1824–1883


J. H. Eccles (1824–1883) was a Leeds dialect poet whose Yorkshire Songs, published in 1862, Moorman calls a notable contribution to the dialect movement of the industrial West Riding.

The two poems here are taken from Moorman's Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1916).

  1. Ode to t' Mooin
  2. Aunt Nancy

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