PREFACE
CONTENTS
ALLAN RAMSAY
CHAPTER I THE FAMILY TREE
CHAPTER II HIS APPRENTICESHIP; A BURGESS OF THE TOWN 1701-7
CHAPTER III SCOTLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; THE UNION; RAMSAY'S MARRIAGE 1707-12
CHAPTER IV THE EASY CLUB; EARLY POEMS; EDINBURGH OF LAST CENTURY 1712-16
CHAPTER V THE FAVOURITE AT THE 'FOUR-OORS'; FROM WIGMAKER TO BOOKSELLER; THE QUARTO OF 1721 1717-21
CHAPTER VI RAMSAY AS AN EDITOR; THE 'TEA-TABLE MISCELLANY' AND THE 'EVERGREEN' 1721-25
CHAPTER VII 'THE GENTLE SHEPHERD'; SCOTTISH IDYLLIC POETRY; RAMSAY'S PASTORALS 1725-30
CHAPTER VIII RESTING ON HIS LAURELS; BUILDS HIS THEATRE; HIS BOOK OF 'SCOTS PROVERBS' 1730-40
CHAPTER IX CLOSING YEARS OF LIFE; HIS HOUSE ON CASTLEHILL; HIS FAMILY; HIS PORTRAITS 1740-58.
CHAPTER X RAMSAY AS A PASTORAL POET AND AN ELEGIST
CHAPTER XI RAMSAY AS A SATIRIST AND A SONG-WRITER
CHAPTER XII RAMSAY'S MISCELLANEOUS POEMS; CONCLUSION
Title: Allan Ramsay
Famous Scots Series
Author: William Henry Oliphant Smeaton
Language: English
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BY OLIPHANT SMEATON
FAMOUS ·SCOTS· ·SERIES·
PUBLISHED BY OLIPHANT ANDERSON & FERRIER · EDINBURGH AND LONDON
The designs and ornaments of this volume are by Mr. Joseph Brown, and the printing from the press of Messrs. Morrison & Gibb, Edinburgh.
TO DAVID MASSON, LL.D. EMERITUS-PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND ENGLISH LITERATURE IN EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED in grateful acknowledgment of kindly encouragement given in years long gone by, and of intellectual stimulus received from him by his former student THE AUTHOR
