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James Watson's Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems: Volume II

James Watson's Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems: Volume II

Wood, Harriet Harvey

Hardcover

Series: Scottish Text Society Fourth, Book 20

Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

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ISBN10: 1897976070
ISBN13: 9781897976074
Publisher: Scottish Text Society
Published: Jan 1 1991
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
James Watson's Choice Collection is the first known printed collection of Older Scots verse and as such a milestone in Scottish literary history

This eclectic mixture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century pieces along with some earlier works, has examples from many key genres in Scottish literary history, such as the beast poem, the mock testament, the elegy, the peasant brawl poem, and the drinking song. Harriet Harvey Wood's commentary provides considered textual analysis of all the pieces in a fascinating collection which suggests links both back to Dunbar and Lyndsay, and forward to Burns and Garioch.

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