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 30
... Robert Burns with the Answer by J. Lauderdale , near Wigton ( Lauderdale 1984 : v ) . That same year Hector MacNeill's temperance poem , Scotland's Skaith ; or , the Sad Effects of Drunkenness , exemplified in the History of Will and ...
... Robert Burns with the Answer by J. Lauderdale , near Wigton ( Lauderdale 1984 : v ) . That same year Hector MacNeill's temperance poem , Scotland's Skaith ; or , the Sad Effects of Drunkenness , exemplified in the History of Will and ...
Page 148
... Robert Fergusson and Robert Burns . Maggie Lauder seems to have been polished for publication by Sempill's son , Francis of Beltrees ( c.1616–1682 ) . The Sempills comprised a small dynasty of satirical versifiers whose effusions ...
... Robert Fergusson and Robert Burns . Maggie Lauder seems to have been polished for publication by Sempill's son , Francis of Beltrees ( c.1616–1682 ) . The Sempills comprised a small dynasty of satirical versifiers whose effusions ...
Page 202
... Robert Burns ' Halloween , written in 1786 address the same subject . Fergusson's poem is the more successful of the two , that by Burns a rather insipid and disappointing experiment . Much more vigorous and exciting is the latter's ...
... Robert Burns ' Halloween , written in 1786 address the same subject . Fergusson's poem is the more successful of the two , that by Burns a rather insipid and disappointing experiment . Much more vigorous and exciting is the latter's ...
Contents
Acknowledgements ΙΟ | 9 |
The Folk in their Condition | 65 |
Trades and Occupations | 130 |
Copyright | |
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