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 148
... poem's popularity , but also because of the stanza form adopted by the poem , later dubbed ' Standard Habbie ' by Allan Ramsay , and used to brilliant effect by Robert Fergusson and Robert Burns . Maggie Lauder seems to have been ...
... poem's popularity , but also because of the stanza form adopted by the poem , later dubbed ' Standard Habbie ' by Allan Ramsay , and used to brilliant effect by Robert Fergusson and Robert Burns . Maggie Lauder seems to have been ...
Page 202
... Poems vol . 2 , 163 ) ( Scots Magazine , December 1821 , 521 ) The Hallow Fair Robert Fergusson's Hallow - fair , 1772 ... poem entitled Hallowe'en in 1780. All of these poems have been distinguished as belonging to the ' Christis Kirk ...
... Poems vol . 2 , 163 ) ( Scots Magazine , December 1821 , 521 ) The Hallow Fair Robert Fergusson's Hallow - fair , 1772 ... poem entitled Hallowe'en in 1780. All of these poems have been distinguished as belonging to the ' Christis Kirk ...
Page 329
... poets represented . This raises once more the question of audience , and would seem once again to lend strength to my ... poem . In the introduction to the chapbook itself , it is stated that this hymn was first published in Glasgow in ...
... poets represented . This raises once more the question of audience , and would seem once again to lend strength to my ... poem . In the introduction to the chapbook itself , it is stated that this hymn was first published in Glasgow in ...
Contents
Acknowledgements ΙΟ | 9 |
The Chapmen | 41 |
The Folk in their Condition | 65 |
Copyright | |
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