Who is Frederic William Moorman
Frederic William Moorman (1872–1919) was a poet and playwright, and Professor of English Language at the University of Leeds from 1912 to 1918.Biography
Moorman grew up in Devon. He married Frances Beatrice Humpidge (1867–1956) and was the father of John Moorman, who would become Bishop of Ripon.
Career
Academic and Writing
Following university study in Strasbourg, Moorman joined the staff of the Yorkshire College, Leeds in 1898; the Yorkshire College subsequently became the University of Leeds in 1904. When a new Chair was instituted in 1912, Moorman was appointed the university's first Professor of English Language.
Moorman edited the 1912 edition of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale for the Arden Shakespeare p...
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Frederic William Moorman Poems
- The Bride's Homecomming
A weddin', a woo,
A clog an' a shoe,
A pot full o' porridge; away we go!
A Yorkshire Wedding-Rhyme. ... - Lord George
These verses were written soon after the Old Age Pensions Bill came into operation.
I'd walk frae here to Skipton, ... - A Dalesman's Litany
From Hull, Halifax, and Hell, good Lord deliver us.
A Yorkshire Proverb.
... - The Gardener And The Robin
Why! Bobbie, so thou's coom agean!
I'm fain to see thee here;
It's lang sin I've set een on thee,
It's ommost hauf a yeer. ... - The New Englishman
I've lived all my life i' Keighley,
I'm a Yorkshire artisan;
An' when I were just turned seventy
I became an Englishman. ...
