James Watson's Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems: Volume II (20) (Scottish Text Society Fourth Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1897976070 ISBN 13: 9781897976074

Publisher: Scottish Text Society, 1991

Synopsis

James Watson’s Choice Collection is the first known printed collection of Older Scots verse and as such a milestone in Scottish literary history This eclectic mixture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century pieces along with some earlier works, has examples from many key genres in Scottish literary history, such as the beast poem, the mock testament, the elegy, the “peasant brawl” poem, and the drinking song. Harriet Harvey Wood’s commentary provides considered textual analysis of all the pieces in a fascinating collection which suggests links both back to Dunbar and Lyndsay, and forward to Burns and Garioch.

Edition details

• Publisher: Scottish Text Society
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1897976070
• ISBN 13: 9781897976074
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Wood Harriet Harvey