The Ever Green
Allan Ramsay author Murray Pittock author Murray Pittock editor James J Caudle editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:1st Mar '24
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Alongside the other volumes in this new Collected Works, The Ever Green will transform academic and popular understanding of this pivotal but, until now, largely under-researched literary figure. It offers the first full and consistent edition of this text, based on the Bannatyne and other MSS (including an allegedly lost printed text of Alexander Montgomerie’s Cherrie and the Slae). This volume contains the entire text of the 1724 two volume collection (including the prefatory material, also reproduced-but without MS variants- in Prose), an introduction explaining Ramsay’s relationship with the material, how he came to be acquainted with it, and an explanation of his strategy to both present and co-create a Scottish literary tradition from before the Union of the Crowns in 1603. It also includes comprehensive notes on the text as Ramsay presents it.
It is worth pointing out the usefulness of the associated website[…]The materials bring home that the edition produced by this team is not merely the set of Ramsay’s known works edited to the highest attainable degree of correctness. The notes, prefaces, and accompanying material also demonstrate the vast body of knowledge possessed by the team members, which makes possible the edition’s high degree of accuracy and comprehensiveness. -- Sarah Clemmens Waltz, University of the Pacific * Eighteenth-Century Scotland *
This edition is foundational to the study of Scottish literature, whether of that written in response to The Ever Green, or of that written earlier and edited in The Ever Green: in both cases, Pittock and Caudle illuminate the ways in which Ramsay helped reimagine a Scottish literary tradition for the eighteenth century. -- Nicola Royan, University of Nottingham
ISBN: 9781399529402
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848 pages