
Poems of Allan Ramsay
Volumes II and III
Allan Ramsay(Author)
Rhona Brown(Editor)
Edinburgh University Press
Published on 26. May 2023
Book
Hardback
1256 pages
978-1-4744-5680-7 (ISBN)
Description
Allan Ramsay was central to all aspects of Scottish literary culture in the eighteenth century, working simultaneously in editing, playwriting, theatre management, song collecting and bookselling, as well as founding and directing Britain's first circulating library. It was, however, his own original work as a poet which had a transformative influence on the way in which Scottish literature would develop in the ensuing decades and, indeed, centuries. Emerging as a published author in the early 1710s, Ramsay built a remarkably prominent profile as a poet of the Scots language whose work appealed to a diverse range of readers, allowing him to produce prestigious subscribers' editions of his poems in 1721 and 1728 and to continue as a poet until his death in 1758. This definitive and ground-breaking edition of Ramsay's poems reflects the fifty-year career of an influential cultural and literary innovator, which will open new avenues for research.
Reviews / Votes
These volumes engage in a long overdue and commendably serious reappraisal of this long-neglected poet. [...] Solid, well-grounded, and accessible, these valuable new studies mark a truly auspicious beginning for the Edinburgh edition of Ramsay's collected works. -- Carol McGuirk * 18th-Century Scotland * Author, antiquarian and cultural impresario, Allan Ramsay stands at the heart of Edinburgh's literary Enlightenment and the reanimation, especially, of a vibrant Scots vernacular poetic mode. In this superb edition, Rhona Brown definitively supersedes the haphazard efforts of earlier editors, and gives us this important poet with new clarity and completeness. -- Thomas Keymer, University of TorontoMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
33 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 104 mm
Weight
2245 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-5680-7 (9781474456807)
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1st Edition
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€198.99
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Persons
Allan Ramsay (c. 1684-1758) was a foundationally important poet, dramatist, song collector, theatre owner, cultural leader in art and music, and innovative entrepreneur in many spheres from language to libraries. Rhona Brown is Professor of Scottish Textual Cultures at the University of Glasgow. Her research is focused on Scottish literature of the eighteenth century, particularly poetry in Scots, literary and cultural networks of the period and the early Scottish periodical press. She has published widely on eighteenth-century Scottish poetry and has had a particular focus the work of Robert Fergusson; her first monograph was Robert Fergusson and the Scottish Periodical Press (2012). She is an expert on the eighteenth-century periodical press, and was co-editor, with Alex Benchimol and David Shuttleton, of Before Blackwood's: Scottish Journalism in the Age of Enlightenment (2015). Rhona is also an experienced textual editor, having edited Allan Ramsay's Poems (2 Volumes, 2023) and co-edited, with Dr Craig Lamont, Ramsay's Prose (2024).
Content
AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsGeneral Editor's PrefaceBiography of Allan RamsayIntroduction to Poems TextPoems 1721Poems 1728NotesPoems 1721Poems 1728
AbbreviationsUncollected PoemsDubia Notes Glossary Bibliography Index of First Lines
AbbreviationsUncollected PoemsDubia Notes Glossary Bibliography Index of First Lines