Allan Ramsay
by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton
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Language: English
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About this eBook
- Author
- Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant, 1856-1914
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Susan Skinner and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
- Subject
- Ramsay, Allan, 1686-1758
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 32642
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32642
- Release Date
- June 1, 2010
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.ALLAN RAMSAY
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.ALLAN RAMSAY
- 5.CHAPTER I THE FAMILY TREE
- 6.CHAPTER II HIS APPRENTICESHIP; A BURGESS OF THE TOWN—1701-7
- 7.CHAPTER III SCOTLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; THE UNION; RAMSAY'S MARRIAGE—1707-12
- 8.CHAPTER IV THE EASY CLUB; EARLY POEMS; EDINBURGH OF LAST CENTURY—1712-16
- 9.CHAPTER V THE FAVOURITE AT THE 'FOUR-OORS'; FROM WIGMAKER TO BOOKSELLER; THE QUARTO OF 1721—1717-21
- 10.CHAPTER VI RAMSAY AS AN EDITOR; THE 'TEA-TABLE MISCELLANY' AND THE 'EVERGREEN'—1721-25
- 11.CHAPTER VII 'THE GENTLE SHEPHERD'; SCOTTISH IDYLLIC POETRY; RAMSAY'S PASTORALS—1725-30
- 12.CHAPTER VIII RESTING ON HIS LAURELS; BUILDS HIS THEATRE; HIS BOOK OF 'SCOTS PROVERBS'—1730-40
- 13.CHAPTER IX CLOSING YEARS OF LIFE; HIS HOUSE ON CASTLEHILL; HIS FAMILY; HIS PORTRAITS—1740-58.
- 14.CHAPTER X RAMSAY AS A PASTORAL POET AND AN ELEGIST
- 15.CHAPTER XI RAMSAY AS A SATIRIST AND A SONG-WRITER
- 16.CHAPTER XII RAMSAY'S MISCELLANEOUS POEMS; CONCLUSION — FOOTNOTES:
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