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attitudes to kingship
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cabinets of curiosities
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Freemasonry and visions of urban restoration
generic overlays - elegy
golf
history
linguistic overlays - English and Scots
medieval and early modern Perth and the Tay local itineraries on foot and by boat
middle-class leisure - archery
ruins and monuments in the built environment
satire
seventeenth-century attitudes to the Scottish Reformation
Product details
- ISBN 9781897976500
- Weight: 650g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Dec 2024
- Publisher: Scottish Text Society
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This edition of a seventeenth-century Scottish poem gives modern audiences insight into the ways previous generations perceived and engaged with local nature and architecture.
Henry Adamson's "The Muses Threnodie" (1638) offers insights into the lives, amusements and anxieties of of the residents of the town of Perth. In it, two of Perth's citizens venture out on foot and by boat into the vicinity of their cramped, closely overseen town. In whimsically funny conversations, they observe local natural phenomena and landmarks while discussing the buried, ruined evidence of the region's architectural history. Their perceptions of waterways and landforms highlight their sometimes conflicted understanding of historical change at Perth on the eve of the Scottish National Covenant.
The beguilingly inglorious verse in which Henry Adamson clothes his characters' sentiments serves as the outermost layer of several stylistic misdirections, as if to distract official attention from any dangerous contemporary criticism within.
DAVID J. PARKINSON is an emeritus Professor of the Department of English at the University of Saskatchewan. The Scottish Text Society published his edition of Alexander Montgomerie's poems in 2000.
