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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Allan Ramsay

Allan Ramsay

Allan Ramsay

Sian MacKay

Sancho Press
2024
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This first biography of the poet Allan Ramsay (1684-1758) takes the form of a historical novel set in the tumultuous world of early eighteenth-century Edinburgh. All the known facts of the Makar's shapeshifting life are here, interwoven with the author's original research and imaginative passages based on her extensive knowledge of the locations he inhabited. Sales of his masterwork, The Gentle Shepherd (1725), enable Ramsay to give up wig making and open a bookshop - and Britain's first subscription library - adjacent to St Giles Cathedral. Not content with this meteoric rise, and influenced by John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, the makar establishes his New Theatre in the High Street. But disaster soon strikes, forcing the poet ingeniously to re-invent himself with the support of family, friends and notables of the day, including the young David Hume; Clerk of Pennycuik; and the Countess of Eglintoun. Then, as now, the thorny subject of Union divides the country, before Prince Charles Edward Stuart's Tartan Army invades Edinburgh in 1745 and attempts to seize the castle from the garden of the Makar's 'country villa', the Guse-pye House on the slopes of Castlehill. There he dies, just before drainage of the Nor' Loch makes way for the construction of Edinburgh's New Town. 'This book is a tremendous achievement - so much research, so much information, but not only that: a seamless interweaving of fact and fiction to create an imagined life for the man which comes leaping out of every page with its authenticity intact.' Elizabeth Adam of Blairadam 'The author vividly evokes the hustle and bustle of eighteenth-century Edinburgh and restores to his rightful place the poet Allan Ramsay, too often eclipsed by his son, the painter of the same name. A great read.'Ray Perman, author of The Rise and Fall of the City of Money
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Miscellaneous Works of That Celebrated Scotch Poet, Allan Ramsay

Miscellaneous Works of That Celebrated Scotch Poet, Allan Ramsay

Allan Ramsay

Gale Ecco, Print Editions
2018
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT082653Titlepage in red and black. 'A glossary, or explanation of the Scots words us'd by the author, .. ' has separate pagination and register. With a list of subscribers.Dublin: printed by S. Powell, for George Risk, 1724. xix, 3],464, 2],23, 1]p.; 12
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