James Watson's Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems
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beast poem
Burns
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drinking song
Dunbar
elegy
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Garioch
Harriet Harvey Wood
James Watson
Lyndsay
mock testament
Older Scots verse
peasant brawl poem
Scots Poems
Scottish literary history
seventeenth century
sixteenth century
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- ISBN 9781897976074
- Weight: 634g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1991
- Publisher: Scottish Text Society
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
