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Allan Ramsay (15 October 1686 – 7 January 1758) was a Scottish poet (or makar), playwright, publisher, librarian and impresario of early Enlightenment Edinburgh. Ramsay's influence extended to England, foreshadowing the reaction that followed the publication of Percy's Reliques .
Allan Ramsay was a Scottish poet and literary antiquary who maintained national poetic traditions by writing Scots poetry and by preserving the work of earlier Scottish poets at a time when most Scottish writers had been Anglicized. He was admired by Robert Burns as a pioneer in the use of Scots in.
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Allan Ramsay is remembered as a pivotal figure in the 18th-century Scottish literary revival. A poet, playwright, and editor, Ramsay championed vernacular Scots language in his work, helping to preserve and elevate a distinct cultural identity at a time when English literary norms dominated.
Ramsay, Allan (1684–1758), poet, was born on 15 October 1684 at Leadhills, in Crawfordmuir parish, Lanarkshire, the son of John Ramsay (c.1660–1685), factor to the Hope estate and superintendent of its lead mines, and the probably Scots-born Alice (d. 1700), daughter of Allan Bower, gentleman and mineralogist of Derbyshire.
Ramsay takes on the mantle of Scottish Augustan in many of his poems, and in his ‘Epistle to Arbuckle’, he gives an account of himself and his Augustan aim of order: ‘I hate a Drunkard or a ...
Poet Allan Ramsay was born on 15 October 1684 at Leadhills in Lanarkshire, the son of John Ramsay and Alice Bower. He was apprenticed to an Edinburgh wigmaker and eventually set up...
May 26, 2023 · The definitive text of Allan Ramsay’s poems, presenting his uncollected works chronologically for the first time, with comprehensive explanatory notes. Offers the fullest edition of Ramsay’s poems to date, in which previously undiscovered texts expand his known literary corpus.
