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Allan Ramsay
1686 - 1758
Allan Ramsay
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Primary

The Gentle Shepherd

The Tea Table Miscellany (editor)

The Evergreen (editor)

Primary - Collected
Alexander Manson Kinghorn and Alexander Law, eds., Poems by Allan Ramsay and Robert
Fergusson, Scottish Academic Press 1974. PR3657.R2F4

Allan Ramsay, The Ever Green, Being a Collection of Scots Poems Written by the Ingenious Before 1600 (Edinburgh: Ruddiman, 1724), 2 Vols.

Secondary

Sigrid Rieuwerts, 'Allan Ramsay and the Scottish ballads',: Aberdeen University Review, vol.LVIII, 1, no.201,Spring 1999, p.29-41

Allan H. MacLaine, "The Christis Kirk Tradition: Its Evolution in Scots Poetry to Burns, Part III, The Early Eighteenth Century: Allan Ramsay and His Followers," Studies in Scottish Literature 2 (1965): 163-82
A. M. Kinghorn, "Watson's Choice, Ramsay's Voice and a Flash of Fergusson, " Scottish Literary Journal 19, no. 2 (1992): 5-23.

Learning Journeys

Allan Ramsay
is part of:

The Response To Religion
Scotland's Languages


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