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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... land of song - writers and lyrical poets , who , sprung from her historic soil , have celebrated in tuneful verse the living annals and social characteristics , the triumphs and misfortunes , the joys and sorrows of the ancient land ...
... land of song - writers and lyrical poets , who , sprung from her historic soil , have celebrated in tuneful verse the living annals and social characteristics , the triumphs and misfortunes , the joys and sorrows of the ancient land ...
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... land , Upon heaven's high road , which is useful to man . He gathered the waters , and the earth appeared dry , He reared the mountains with their tops to the sky , When the earth was formed , there sprang forth the flowers , When word ...
... land , Upon heaven's high road , which is useful to man . He gathered the waters , and the earth appeared dry , He reared the mountains with their tops to the sky , When the earth was formed , there sprang forth the flowers , When word ...
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... land ' . He would describe wild Highlanders in the metropolis and metropolitans imitating savage Celts , ' and with all the redolence of eloquence we would discourse of gausy bailies , provosts proud , and the detail of other smirking ...
... land ' . He would describe wild Highlanders in the metropolis and metropolitans imitating savage Celts , ' and with all the redolence of eloquence we would discourse of gausy bailies , provosts proud , and the detail of other smirking ...
Contents
Acknowledgements ΙΟ | 9 |
The Chapmen | 41 |
The Folk in their Condition | 65 |
Copyright | |
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