| PAGE | | CHAPTER I | | The Family Tree | 9 | | CHAPTER II | | Ramsay's Apprenticeship; a Burgess of the Town—1701-7 | 23 | | CHAPTER III | | Scotland in the Eighteenth Century; the Union; Ramsay's Marriage—1707-12 | 28 | | CHAPTER IV | | The Easy Club; Early Poems; Edinburgh of Last Century—1712-16 | 41 | | CHAPTER V | | The Favourite of the 'Four 'Oors'; from Wigmaker to Bookseller; the Quarto of 1721—1717-21 | 56 | | CHAPTER VI | | Ramsay as an Editor: The Tea-Table Miscellany and The Evergreen—1721-25 | 68 | | CHAPTER VII | | The Gentle Shepherd; Scottish Idyllic Poetry; Ramsay's Pastorals—1725-30 | 85 | | CHAPTER VIII | | Resting on his Laurels; Builds his Theatre; his Book of Scots Proverbs—1730-40 | 97 | | CHAPTER IX | | Closing Years of Life; his House on Castlehill; his Family; his Portraits—1740-58 | 112 | | CHAPTER X | | Ramsay as a Pastoral Poet and an Elegist | 122 | | CHAPTER XI | | Ramsay as a Satirist and a Song-Writer | 144 | | CHAPTER XII | | Ramsay's Miscellaneous Poems; Conclusion | 154 |
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