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On Editing The Merry Muses, Valentina Bold Aug 2012

On Editing The Merry Muses, Valentina Bold

Studies in Scottish Literature

Discusses the sources and issues in reediting the late 18th century Scottish song collection, The Merry Muses of Caledonia (1799), in connection the 50th anniversary of the first modern scholarly edition, edited by Sydney Goodsir Smith, James Barke, and J. Delancey Ferguson in 1959.


"The Poor Man's Friend In Need": Baird, Burns And Miller, David Robb Aug 2012

"The Poor Man's Friend In Need": Baird, Burns And Miller, David Robb

Studies in Scottish Literature

Surveys the career of the Rev. George Baird (1761-1840), principal of the University of Edinburgh and minister of Edinburgh's High Kirk, assessing Baird's edition of the poems of Michael Bruce (1796), tracing his early encounter with the Scottish poet Robert Burns and his later connection with the self-educated Scottish writer and geologist Hugh Miller, and describing his efforts to relieve destitution and improve education in the west and north of Scotland and his extensive travels on behalf of the General Assembly's Highlands and Islands Committee.


Publications By G. Ross Roy, A Checklist, 1953-2011, Patrick G. Scott, Justin Mellette Aug 2012

Publications By G. Ross Roy, A Checklist, 1953-2011, Patrick G. Scott, Justin Mellette

Studies in Scottish Literature

This checklist details books and other separate publications, articles, and reviews, published through December 2011 by the Burns scholar G. Ross Roy (1924-2013), longtime professor of English at the University of South Carolina. The list encompasses his work not only on Burns and Scottish poetry, but in Canadian literature, comparative literature, and book history.


Irresolute Ravishers And The Sexual Economy Of Chivalry In The Romantic Novel, Gary Dyer Dec 2000

Irresolute Ravishers And The Sexual Economy Of Chivalry In The Romantic Novel, Gary Dyer

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Ivanhoe, Chivalry, And The Murder Of Mary Ashford, Gary Dyer Jun 1997

Ivanhoe, Chivalry, And The Murder Of Mary Ashford, Gary Dyer

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Celtic Affinities In The Earlier Poems Of Kenneth White, Lynn Novak Jan 1975

Celtic Affinities In The Earlier Poems Of Kenneth White, Lynn Novak

Studies in Scottish Literature

This early introduction to White's poetry, including work published in France as well as in the U.K., discusses his displacement from the Scottish canon and his alienation from the English poetry of the 1950s and 60s.