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James Watson's Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems

Volume II

Harriet Harvey Wood editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Scottish Text Society

Published:1st Jan '91

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James Watson’s Choice Collection is the first known printed collection of Older Scots verse and as such a milestone in Scottish literary history This eclectic mixture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century pieces along with some earlier works, has examples from many key genres in Scottish literary history, such as the beast poem, the mock testament, the elegy, the “peasant brawl” poem, and the drinking song. Harriet Harvey Wood’s commentary provides considered textual analysis of all the pieces in a fascinating collection which suggests links both back to Dunbar and Lyndsay, and forward to Burns and Garioch.

ISBN: 9781897976074

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 634g

384 pages