Author: Peter STILL (Scottish Poet.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Cottar's Sunday, and Other Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
Author: Peter STILL (Scottish Poet.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The cottar's Sunday, and other poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect
Author: Peter StillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Multilingual Subjects
Author: Daniel DeWispelarePublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812249097
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Daniel DeWispelare documents how many varieties of English became sidelined as "dialects" as Standard English became dominant throughout an ever-expanding English-speaking world, while asserting the importance of both multilingualism and dialect writing to eighteenth-century anglophone culture.
Cottage Gardens and Gardeners in the East of Scotland, 1750-1914
Author: Catherine RicePublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783276622
Category : Cottage gardens
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This pioneering study tells the story of the emergence of rural workers' gardens during a period of unprecedented economic and social change in the most dynamic and prosperous region of Scotland. Much criticised as weed-infested, badly cultivated and disfigured by the dung heap before the cottage door, eighteenth-century cottage gardens produced only the most basic food crops. But the paradox is that Scottish professional gardeners at this time were highly prized and sought after all over the world. And by the eve of the First World War Scottish cottage gardeners were raising flowers, fruit and a wide range of vegetables, and celebrating their successes at innumerable flower shows. This book delves into the lives of farm servants, labourers, weavers, miners and other workers living in the countryside, to discover not only what vegetables, fruit and flowers they grew, and how they did it, but also how poverty, insecurity and long and arduous working days shaped their gardens. Workers' cottage gardens were also expected to comply with the needs of landowners, farmers and employers and with their expectations of the industrious cottager. But not all the gardens were muddy cabbage and potato patches and not all the gardeners were ignorant or unenthusiastic. The book also tells the stories of the keen gardeners who revelled in their pretty plots, raised prize exhibits for village shows and, in a few cases, found gardening to be a stepping-stone to scientific exploration.
A Bibliography of Local Poetry to 1860
Author: William WalkerThe Bards of Bon-Accord, 1375-1860
Author: William WalkerPublisher:
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Category : Scottish poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
Working Verse in Victorian Scotland
Author: Kirstie BlairPublisher:
ISBN: 0198843798
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This 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.
The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns
Author: Gerard CarruthersPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192585207
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 657
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns treats the extensive writing of and culture surrounding Scotland's national 'bard'. Robert Burns (1759-96) was a producer of lyrical verse, satirical poetry, in English and Scots, a song-writer and song-collector, a writer of bawdry, journals, commonplace books and correspondence. Sculpting his own image, his untutored rusticity was a sincere persona as much as it was not entirely accurate. Burns was an antiquarian, national patriot, pioneer of what today we would call 'folk culture', and a man of the Enlightenment and Romanticism. The Handbook considers Burns's reception in his own time and beyond, extending to his iconic status as a world-writer. Burns was important to the English Romantic poets, in the context of debates about Abolition in the US, in the Victorian era he was widely utilised as a model for different kinds of popular poetry and he has been utilised as a contestant in debates surrounding Scottish and, indeed, British politics, in peacetime and in wartime down to the present day. The writer's afterlife includes not only a large number of biographies but a whole culture of commemoration in art, architecture, fiction, material culture, museum-exhibition and even forged manuscripts and memorabilia as well as appearances, apparently, via Spiritualist seances. The politics of his work channel the fierce debates of late eighteenth-century Scottish ecclesiastical controversy as well as the ages of American, Agrarian and French revolutions. All of this ground is traversed in this Handbook, the largest critical compendium ever assembled about Robert Burns.
Author: Burns Federation
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