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Ramsay, Allan
Ramsay, Allan (1686–1758), Scottish poet and bookseller. He opened the first circulating library in Edinburgh in 1726 (see libraries, circulating). In 1718 he brought out anonymously several editions of Christis Kirk on the Green, with supplementary verses of his own in fake antique Scots. A collection of his elegies and satires appeared in 1721. He issued The Tea-Table Miscellany (1724–37), the first of many 18th-cent. collections of songs and ballads; The Ever Green (1724), which contained work by the great poets of late medieval Scotland, notably Dunbar and Henryson, though with revisions and additions of his own, and which contributed much to the revival of vernacular Scottish poetry; and a pastoral comedy, The Gentle Shepherd (1725), with Scots songs.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Ramsay, Allan." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Ramsay, Allan." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-RamsayAllan.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Ramsay, Allan." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-RamsayAllan.html |
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