Selected Essays on Scottish Language and Literature: A Festschrift in Honor of Allan H. MacLaineSteven R. McKenna This is a selection of essays by some of the leading scholars in the field of Scottish studies, covering the literary traditions of Scotland from the ancient poetry of the picts to Scots translations of Italian poems in the 20th century. |
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... Bards of Bon - Accord , a faithful embodiment of the Aberdonian literary tradition to 1860 . In his own lifetime , The Bards of Bon - Accord came to be regarded as a minor classic . His collaborator in a collection of Child ballads ...
... Bards of Bon - Accord , a faithful embodiment of the Aberdonian literary tradition to 1860 . In his own lifetime , The Bards of Bon - Accord came to be regarded as a minor classic . His collaborator in a collection of Child ballads ...
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... bards , John Barbour , was by chronology the subject of his opening chapter , but Walker explained that by placing the author of Bruce first he was not deeming him simply a " local poet " ; Barbour's influence was national , but the ...
... bards , John Barbour , was by chronology the subject of his opening chapter , but Walker explained that by placing the author of Bruce first he was not deeming him simply a " local poet " ; Barbour's influence was national , but the ...
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... ( Bards 358 ) Thus Walker at his roughest . To damn with faint praise was his usual way of summing up his contemporaries when their demonstrable incompetence compelled him to send the lave of this long train of " bards and bardlings ...
... ( Bards 358 ) Thus Walker at his roughest . To damn with faint praise was his usual way of summing up his contemporaries when their demonstrable incompetence compelled him to send the lave of this long train of " bards and bardlings ...
Contents
Henrysons Construction of his Audience | 13 |
David Parkinson Prescriptions for Laughter in Some Middle Scots Poems | 27 |
Scottish Goliard | 41 |
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