The Peasant Poets of Scotland and Musings Under Beeches
Author: Henry Shanks
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Published: 1881
Total Pages: 408
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Author: Henry Shanks
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Published: 1881
Total Pages: 408
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Susanne Kord
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781571132680
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Author: David Herschell Edwards
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Published: 1888
Total Pages: 440
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Valentina Bold
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9783039108978
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book sheds new light on James Hogg, the Scottish poet (1770-1835), going beyond the 'Ettrick Shepherd' stereotype. By focussing on Hogg's poetry (Scottish Pastorals, The Queen's Wake, Jacobite Relics, Queen Hynde, Pilgrims of the Sun) it shows that his work, and the critical response to it, was significantly shaped by the concept of the autodidact: a working-class writer who was considered to be a poet of 'Nature's Making'. The image of the autodidact is pursued from its beginnings - Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd, Macpherson's Ossian, Burns as 'ploughman poet' - through its development in the nineteenth century, to its last gasps in the twentieth. Poets considered include Isobel Pagan, Janet Little, William Tennant, Allan Cunningham, Robert Tannahill, Janet Hamilton, Ellen Johnston, Elizabeth Hartley, Alexander Anderson, David Gray, David Wingate and James Young Geddes. Despite facing difficulties, autodidacts produced some of the most innovative and exciting poetry of the nineteenth century. The author argues that the autodidactic tradition, exemplified by Hogg, nurtured the creative vigour manifested in twentieth-century Scottish poetry. While Scotland's autodidacts shared poetic concerns and techniques, they were characterised, above all, by diversity of poetic voice.
Author: Alexander M. Bisset
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Published: 1896
Total Pages: 368
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Corey E Andrews
Publisher: Hotei Publishing
Published: 2015-05-02
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9004294376
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Genius of Scotland: The Cultural Production of Robert Burns, 1785-1834 explores the wide-ranging reception history of Robert Burns by examining the sources of his reputation as the ‘Genius of Scotland’ in the Scottish Enlightenment and beyond. Evaluating his changing stature in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the book investigates the figure of Burns as a ‘cultural production’ that was constructed by warring cultural forces in the literary marketplace. The critical promotion of Burns as the ‘Heaven-taught ploughman’ greatly influenced his legacy as a labouring-class ‘genius’ and national icon, both of which relied on blatant censorship and distortion of his biography and works. The Genius of Scotland debunks both the hagiographic and vituperative representations of the poet from this period, revealing not only how (and why) he was culturally produced as a national ‘genius’ but also how the process continues to influence our understanding of Burns into the present day.
Author: Henry Shanks
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Published: 1881
Total Pages: 410
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edinburgh (Scotland). Public Library
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Published: 1890
Total Pages: 564
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kirstie Blair
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-06-20
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 0192581961
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume reassesses working-class poetry and poetics in Victorian Britain, using Scotland as a focus and with particular attention to the role of the popular press in fostering and disseminating working-class verse cultures. It studies a very wide variety of writers who are unknown to scholarship, and assesses the political, social, and cultural work which their poetry performed. During the Victorian period, Scotland underwent unprecedented changes in terms of industrialization, the rise of the city, migration, and emigration. This study shows how poets who defined themselves as part of a specifically Scottish tradition responded to these changes. It substantially revises our understanding of Scottish literature in this period, while contributing to wider investigations of the role of popular verse in national and international cultures.
Author: Henry Shanks
Publisher: Palala Press
Published: 2016-05-20
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ISBN-13: 9781357839109
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