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Case 4.5

Submitted by phaggett on September 13, 2013 - 14:06
Case 4.5

Dewey, Herbert H. Ramblings of a Convalescent : Homespun Philosophy and Dialect Tales in Prose and Verse Reflecting Fifty Years as Farmer, Salesman and Country Storekeeper. Champlain, NY: Moorsfield Press, 1950.

SPEC PS548.N7 D48 1950.

Speare, E. Ray. "Part I: Doings at the Hollywood Club..." Verses in French Canadian Patois. Boston: 1957.

SPEC PR 6037 .P37 V4 1957.

Throughout my survey of Adirondack poetry, I stumbled across multiple books that included pieces in the same style as “The Hollywood Club”. These poems are written in dialect, which not only serves to root the poem more firmly in the Adirondacks, but also to lighten the poem. The use of dialect here allows funny wrenched rhymes (such as “deer” and “dere”).