Author: William WalkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scottish poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
The Bards of Bon-Accord, 1375-1860
Author: William WalkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scottish poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
The Bards of Bon-Accord, 1375-1860 (Classic Reprint)
Author: William WalkerPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781334387982
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Excerpt from The Bards of Bon-Accord, 1375-1860 Various works purporting to deal with Scottish minor poets and poetry have within recent years been placed before the public - some of them excellent so far as they went, others little better than mere catchpennies, crude and unreliable all of them defective, because the field was too wide for any one man to master or one work contain. I have long felt certain that an adequate presentation of such a subject was only possible through each shire or district receiving separate treatment - hence The Bards of eon-accord. Though the plan proposed in this work was to deal with those writers only, who, connected by birth or residence with our north-eastern district, have published up to 1860, yet its subject is brought down to a much more recent date - living writers, however, with one exception, being excluded from the body of the work. In the Appendix of Fugitive Poetry this latter restriction has been discarded, and notices of living writers whose effusions engaged public attention prior to 1860 are there given. In the bibliography forming part II. Of the Appendix, biographical notes have frequently been added, in order to render the work as fairly complete as the limits of one volume would allow. The treatment of the whole subject is chronological, and dates, more or less approximative, have been given at the top of each page, so that a reader may know at once the period to which any author belongs. The workvfii preface. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Bards of Bon-Accord, 1375-1860
Author: William WalkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scottish poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Catalogue of Local Collection to be Found in the Reference Dept
Author: Aberdeen (Scotland). Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Scottish Notes and Queries
Author: Scottish Notes and Queries
Author: John BullochPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The High-Kilted Muse
Author: Murray ShoolbraidPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496801156
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
In 1832 the Scottish ballad collector Peter Buchan of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, presented an anthology of risqué‚ and convivial songs and ballads to a Highland laird. When Professor Francis James Child of Harvard was preparing his magisterial edition of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, he made inquiries about it, but it was not made available in time to be considered for his work. On his death it was presented to the Child Memorial Library at Harvard. Because of its unseemly materials, the manuscript languished there since, unprinted, though referred to now and again, and a few items from time to time made an appearance. The manuscript has now been transcribed with full annotation and with an introduction on the compiler, his times, and the Scottish bawdy tradition. It contains the texts (without tunes) of seventy-six bawdy songs and ballads, along with a long-lost scatological poem attributed to the Edinburgh writer James “Balloon” Tytler. Appendices give details of Buchan's two published collections of ballads. Additionally, there is a list of tale types and motifs, a glossary of Scots and archaic words, a bibliography, and an index. The High-Kilted Muse brings to light a long-suppressed volume and fills in a great gap in published bawdy songs and ballads.
Cornell Studies in English
Author: A Register of Bibliographies of the English Language and Literature
Author: Clark Sutherland NorthupPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Author: Hew Scott