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Allan Ramsay
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Standard Name: Ramsay, Allan,, 1686 - 1758
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Textual Production | Joanna Baillie | She thus made part of the Scottish ballad revival forwarded by individuals of several generations including Allan Ramsay
, Elizabeth, Lady Wardlaw
, Jean Elliott
, Alison Cockburn
, her aunt Anne Hunter
, Burns |
Textual Features | Isabel Pagan | IP
presents herself jauntily in Account of the Author's Lifetime, the first poem in the volume. When I see merry company, / I sing a song with mirth and glee, / And sometimes I... |
Textual Features | Anne Grant | The poems include epistles, translations from Gaelic, and occasional poetry including a piece on the death of Burns
. Apart from calling herself the rural muse, Grant also emphasises her Scottish identity: her characteristic... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Helme | Volume one is headed with a stanza from an old Scottish ballad. (Other ballads, and quotations from Allan Ramsay
, are similarly used to head chapters.) The book begins with the kind of interjection fashionable... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Warton | JW
's novel has nothing to do with Theophilus Cibber
's afterpiece Patie and Peggy, 1730 (derived in turn from a work by Allan Ramsay
), in which the title characters are one of... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Margaretta Larpent | In 1776 the future AML
recorded meeting the Corsican patriot Paoli
and Dr Johnson
ye Great. |
Education | Christian Milne | So keen was the child on her school-learned skills that she kept a piece of broken slate Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Letters from the North Highlands, During the Summer 1816. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. 58 |
Education | Frances Browne | FB
's blindness meant that she did not have a formal education, and she very early felt the want of it. Browne, Frances. The Star of Attéghéi; the Vision of Schwartz; and Other Poems. Edward Moxon. ix |
Education | Janet Hamilton | She attributed her power of language and ability for composition to reading the works of good authors, Hamilton, Janet. Poems, Essays, and Sketches. James Maclehose. viii |
Timeline
1724: Allan Ramsay published his influential anthology...
Writing climate item
1724
Allan Ramsay
published his influential anthology of Scottish works from several centuries in the past: The Ever Green.
1725: Allan Ramsay established a circulating library...
Building item
1725
Allan Ramsay
established a circulating library in Edinburgh which may have been the first in Britain. Another opened in Bath the same year.
Nicholson, Colin. “"Of Eminent Significancy": Allan Ramsay’s ‘British’ Poetics and Post-Union Construction of Cultural Space”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
25
, No. 2, pp. 203-16. 203
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