The ever green /
The first scholarly edition of Allan Ramsay's Ever Green. This new edition includes the first published edition, where it is treated as if it was authored by Ramsay, and records variants from manuscript drafts in the notes. Makes full use of all MS and printed sources, and provides detailed inf...
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| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2024]
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| Series: | Ramsay, Allan, 1686-1758. Works.
v. 6. |
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| Summary: | The first scholarly edition of Allan Ramsay's Ever Green. This new edition includes the first published edition, where it is treated as if it was authored by Ramsay, and records variants from manuscript drafts in the notes. Makes full use of all MS and printed sources, and provides detailed information on publishing history, as well as the recording of Ramsay's own variants and contextual annotation. Includes a sample of Ruddiman's ornaments for the text in the prefatory matter. Includes editorial annotations and textual apparatus to supplement the volumes as endnotes and end matter. 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xix, 818 pages : portrait ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781399529402 1399529404 |