Author : David Lindsay
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331284508
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (845 download)
Book Synopsis The Poetical Works of Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount, Lyon King of Arms, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) by : David Lindsay
Download or read book The Poetical Works of Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount, Lyon King of Arms, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) written by David Lindsay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount, Lyon King of Arms, Vol. 1 of 2 The attention of this intelligent and polished kingdom has been drawn very much, during late times, to the simple, and rude, but natural lays of its ancient Poets. Meantime, the Critics of Edinburgh called for a more accurate edition of the Poems of Sir David Lyndsay than the public cuj oys, after the cor ruptions of two centuries and shelf. I obeyed this call, with the more alacrity as I had recently traced, with a different view, the history of the scoto-saxon language, and had cast a curious eye on the life and labours of Lyndsay, the Langelande of Scotland. The notions of Lyndsay, indeed, are very different from mine, both as a politician and a poet but, I perceived, that the republication of his poetry might be made the commodious vehicle of my own sentiments, with regard to the origin, the nature, and the introduction of the Teutonic tongue into Gaelic Scotland. In performing the task, which I had thus imposed on myself, I now lay before the reader a new edition of the Poetical Works of Sir David Lyndsay, corrected and enlarged, with the H istorie of Squyer Meldrum, and the Satyr-c of the Three Estaitis. By troubling several friends, and making many searches, I have been enabled to give some new notices of our satirist, who, to use Dryden's phrase, may be said to have lashed vice into reformation. I have endeavoured to adjust the chronology of Lyndsay' 3 several poems, which had never been before essayed. I have given an historical view of the Scottish speech, previous to his age, with observations on his language. I have settled the text of our vernacular poet, from a diligent collation of the oldest editions of his poems. And I have subj oined an appropriate Glossary which inciden tally demonstrates that the common source of Scottish speech is the Anglo - Saxon dialect of the Northumbrian kingdom. 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.