Before Burns
Eighteenth-Century Scottish Poetry
Published on 1. May 2009
360 pages
978-1-84767-466-1 (ISBN)
Description
This superb anthology offers a lively and indispensable collection of poems and songs from the eighteenth century. Here are the poets who created the literary tradition of vernacular directness which Burns drew upon and shared.
Before Burns includes a substantial selection from the work of Allan Ramsay and Robert Ferguson (Burns's 'elder brother in the muse'), as well as a wider selection from the men and women writers whose good-humoured accessibility so characterised the poetry of their time.
MacLachlan's excellent introduction also puts these works in perspective and makes a case for a linguistic confidence, rather than insecurity, in their vigorous use of English and Scots.
Before Burns includes a substantial selection from the work of Allan Ramsay and Robert Ferguson (Burns's 'elder brother in the muse'), as well as a wider selection from the men and women writers whose good-humoured accessibility so characterised the poetry of their time.
MacLachlan's excellent introduction also puts these works in perspective and makes a case for a linguistic confidence, rather than insecurity, in their vigorous use of English and Scots.
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Main
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-84767-466-1 (9781847674661)
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Christopher MacLachlan
Before Burns
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04/2002
Canongate Books
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Christopher MacLachlan attended Trinity Academy, Edinburgh and received an MA(Hons) and PhD from the University of Edinburgh.
He is teaching at the University of St Andrews.
He is teaching at the University of St Andrews.
Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Note on the Texts
- The Poems
- ANONYMOUS
- GRIZEL BAILLIE (1665-1746)
- ALEXANDER ROBERTSON OF STRUAN (1668-1749)
- WILLIAM HAMILTON OF GILBERTFIELD (1670-1751)
- ALLAN RAMSAY (1685-1758)
- ROBERT CRAWFORD (1695-1733)
- ALEXANDER ROSS (1699-1784)
- WILLIAM HAMILTON OF BANGOUR (1704-54)
- DAVID MALLET (1705-65)
- ALISON RUTHERFORD COCKBURN (1712-94)
- HENRY ERSKINE (1720-65)
- JOHN SKINNER (1721-1807)
- TOBIAS SMOLLETT (1721-71)
- WILLIAM WILKIE (1721-72)
- JEAN ELLIOT (1727-1805)
- JAMES BEATTIE (1735-1803)
- ISOBEL PAGAN (1741-1821)
- ALEXANDER, DUKE OF GORDON (1743-1827)
- HECTOR MACNEILL (1746-1818)
- MICHAEL BRUCE (1746-67)
- ROBERT FERGUSSON (1750-74)
- ANNE LINDSAY (1750-1825)
- JOHN TAIT (C.1750-1817)
- ELIZABETH HAMILTON (1758-1816)
- JOANNA BAILLIE (1762-1851)
- Notes
- Glossary of Common Scots Words
- About the Author
- Copyright
