Author: David Morison
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Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Author: David Morison
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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Author: David Morison
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781104199814
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author: David Morison (of Montrose.)
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Category : Scottish poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Author: Susan Rennie
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191623695
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages :

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This is the first full account of the making of John Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language. The dictionary was published in two volumes in 1808, with a two-volume Supplement following in 1825. Lists of Scots words had been compiled before, but Jamieson's was the first complete dictionary of the language. It was a landmark in the development of historical lexicography and was an inspiration for later lexicographers, including Sir James Murray, founding editor of the OED. Susan Rennie's account of Jamieson's work and the methods he developed interweaves biography, lexicography, and linguistic, social, and book history to present a rounded account of the man, his work, and his times. It is the first study to draw on Jamieson's correspondence and the surviving manuscript materials for the Dictionary and Supplement to reveal Jamieson's working methods and the important contributions made by Sir Walter Scott and others to his work.

Author: Daniel DeWispelare
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812249097
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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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.

Author: Robert Crawford
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400832845
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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No writer is more charismatic than Robert Burns. Wonderfully readable, The Bard catches Burns's energy, brilliance, and radicalism as never before. To his international admirers he was a genius, a hero, a warm-hearted friend; yet to the mother of one of his lovers he was a wastrel, to a fellow poet he was "sprung . . . from raking of dung," and to his political enemies a "traitor." Drawing on a surprising number of untapped sources--from rediscovered poetry by Burns to manuscript journals, correspondence, and oratory by his contemporaries--this new biography presents the remarkable life, loves, and struggles of the great poet. Inspired by the American and French Revolutions and molded by the Scottish Enlightenment, Burns was in several senses the first of the major Romantics. With a poet's insight and a shrewd sense of human drama, Robert Crawford outlines how Burns combined a childhood steeped in the peasant song-culture of rural Scotland with a consummate linguistic artistry to become not only the world's most popular love poet but also the controversial master poet of modern democracy. Written with accessible elan and nuanced attention to Burns's poems and letters, The Bard is the story of an extraordinary man fighting to maintain a sly sense of integrity in the face of overwhelming pressures. This incisive biography startlingly demonstrates why the life and work of Scotland's greatest poet still compel the attention of the world a quarter of a millennium after his birth.

Author: John Bulloch
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Author: David Morison (of Montrose )
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781354562680
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Languages : en
Pages : 382

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