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Allan Ramsay
1686 - 1758
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Allan Ramsay - ‘Elegy on Maggy Johnston’
Ramsay is one of the most important poets in Scottish literature. He set the tone and outlined the agenda for writers like Fergusson and Burns, and, besides the verse that he himself left us, as a collector and compiler he saved many literary gems that would be lost to us otherwise. The ‘Elegy of Maggy Johnston’ finds Ramsay at his best, tenderly and humorously depicting the sights, sounds and characters of his beloved Edinburgh. He showed us that there is beauty in the commonplace, and this tradition runs through Scottish literature till this day.
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