Poems of Allan Ramsay
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-5680-7 (ISBN)
Offers the fullest edition of Ramsay's poems to date, in which previously undiscovered texts expand his known literary corpus
Provides a definitive text of Ramsay's poems in which uncollected works are presented chronologically for the first time
Detailed collation of texts against all extant manuscript sources and relevant printed editions, and comprehensive explanatory annotations offering new insights into Ramsay's historical, political, literary and religious contexts
Allan Ramsay was central to all aspects of Scottish literary culture in the eighteenth century, working simultaneously in editing, playwriting, theatre management, song collecting and bookselling, as well as founding and directing Britain's first circulating library. It was, however, his own original work as a poet which had a transformative influence on the way in which Scottish literature would develop in the ensuing decades and, indeed, centuries. Emerging as a published author in the early 1710s, Ramsay built a remarkably prominent profile as a poet of the Scots language whose work appealed to a diverse range of readers, allowing him to produce prestigious subscribers' editions of his poems in 1721 and 1728 and to continue as a poet until his death in 1758. This definitive and ground-breaking edition of Ramsay's poems reflects the fifty-year career of an influential cultural and literary innovator, which will open new avenues for research.
Allan Ramsay (c. 1684 1758) was a foundationally important poet, dramatist, song collector, theatre owner, cultural leader in art and music, and innovative entrepreneur in many spheres from language to libraries.Rhona Brown is Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Literature and the Periodical Press at the University of Glasgow. Her research specialism is in eighteenth-century Scots language poetry and the history of the periodical press in Scotland, as well as in eighteenth-century club culture and sociability. Brown is author of Robert Fergusson and the Scottish Periodical Press (2012) and co-editor of Before Blackwood's: Scottish Journalism in the Age of Enlightenment (2015), and she has published widely on eighteenth-century Scottish literature and journalism. Alongside her editorial work on the Collected Works of Allan Ramsay, Brown is co-editor of Robert Burns's Correspondence (Oxford University Press).
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.07.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Allan Ramsay |
| Zusatzinfo | 33 B/W illustrations 33 black and white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Anthologien |
| Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-5680-4 / 1474456804 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-5680-7 / 9781474456807 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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