“In volume and variety the dialect poetry of Yorkshire surpasses that of all other English counties.”

A historian of the vernacular staking Yorkshire's claim · Introduction, Yorkshire Dialect Poems

• Place
• Poetry
• Tradition

“One main object of the present enquiry is to show that the poetic interpretation of Nature did not begin in the eighteenth century.”

Resisting the idea that earlier poets used landscape only as scenery · Essay, The Interpretation of Nature in English Poetry

• History
• Nature
• Poetry

“At first my object was purely philological, but soon I came to realise that men and women were more interesting than words and phrases, and my attention was attracted from dialect speech to dialect speakers.”

A scholar of folk-speech turning from vocabulary to the lives of the speakers · Preface, Songs of the Ridings

• Humanity
• Language
• Poetry