Folk in Print: Scotland's Chapbook Heritage, 1750-1850John Donald, 2007 - 438 pages Though they represent a great unmined treasure-trove of history, literature and popular culture, chapbooks have been incomprehensibly and disgracefully ignored. This title presents a study of this form of publication. |
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Page 18
... Ramsay and Robert Fergusson . As Ken Simpson ( 1988 ) has perceptively observed , both Ramsay and Fergusson's use of Scots subverts the notion of high art to conspire in the democratisation of literature , Ramsay actually supplying a ...
... Ramsay and Robert Fergusson . As Ken Simpson ( 1988 ) has perceptively observed , both Ramsay and Fergusson's use of Scots subverts the notion of high art to conspire in the democratisation of literature , Ramsay actually supplying a ...
Page 170
... Ramsay's Poems , 1728 , ( Ramsay 1877 : vol . 1 , 161-5 ) as An Elegy on Maggy Johnstoun , a song which he wrote for his friends in the Easy Club . Unusually there is a theme linking the two texts - that of the demon drink . Maggy ...
... Ramsay's Poems , 1728 , ( Ramsay 1877 : vol . 1 , 161-5 ) as An Elegy on Maggy Johnstoun , a song which he wrote for his friends in the Easy Club . Unusually there is a theme linking the two texts - that of the demon drink . Maggy ...
Page 434
... ( Ramsay ) , 170 Poems ( 1877 ) ( Ramsay ) , 193 poetry Gaelic , 324 , 329 , 331 Scots vernacular , 18 Poet's Box , The , 31 , 38–9 Poliakov , Leon , 166 politics , 96 , 131 Pomona , 77 popular literature , sanitisation , 34 poverty ...
... ( Ramsay ) , 170 Poems ( 1877 ) ( Ramsay ) , 193 poetry Gaelic , 324 , 329 , 331 Scots vernacular , 18 Poet's Box , The , 31 , 38–9 Poliakov , Leon , 166 politics , 96 , 131 Pomona , 77 popular literature , sanitisation , 34 poverty ...
Contents
Acknowledgements ΙΟ | 9 |
The Folk in their Condition | 65 |
Trades and Occupations | 130 |
Copyright | |
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