The History Of Scottish Poetry Edited By J A Carlyle With A Memoir By D Laing And Glossary

Author : David Irving
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ISBN 13 : 9781330807743
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The History of Scotish Poetry written by David Irving and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of Scotish Poetry: Edited by John Aitken Carlyle, With a Memoir and Glossary The manuscript of this History of Scotish Poetry - written very neatly and distinctly - was put into my hands in December last. After due consideration, I recommended the publication of it - both because there is no other work of the kind, and because it contains a great deal of accurate and solid information, which, in addition to its present value, will be of essential use to any one who may hereafter attempt to treat the subject more completely and in a more modern form. As to the Editorship, since no one else was ready to undertake it, I consented - chiefly from love of the subject and respect for the memory of the Author - to superintend the last proof-sheets, and very speedily got more deeply entangled in the business. A few words will suffice to state what has been attempted by me: - The d104 itself is printed exactly as it was left by the Author: from the outset all changes seemed perfectly hopeless - might swell or diminish the work, but could do it no good - for the whole of it is written with a deliberate and steadfast coherency and compactness. The Poetical Extracts, in many cases, required a somewhat different treatment. The Author, though he possessed in his own private library all the careful and accurate editions of Old Scotish Poems published by Mr. Laing, had seldom made use of them; and it seemed absolutely necessary to remedy that defect by giving various improved readings from those editions. The quotations from Barbour and Winton and Henry the Minstrel needed no alteration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.