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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.
- 7 January 1758 (aged 71)
- Scottish
- poet
3. Apr. 2024 · 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 (Autor) Allan Ramsay. Allan Ramsay (* 15. Oktober 1686 in Leadhills, Lanarkshire, Schottland; † 7. Januar 1758 in Edinburgh) war ein schottischer Dichter, Buchhändler, Herausgeber, Theaterleiter und Bibliothekar mit dem Broterwerb des Perückenmachers. Sein Perückengeschäft befand sich am Edinburgher Grassmarket. [1]
- 15. Oktober 1686
- Ramsay, Allan
- Dichter und Buchhändler
Ramsay is remembered as a Scots poet, but, like Fergusson, English language works play a role in his corpus. Whilst he was a champion of all things Scots and an opponent of the Union of 1707...
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.
The Gentle Shepherd is a pastoral comedy by Allan Ramsay. It was first published in 1725 and dedicated to Susanna Montgomery, Lady Eglinton , to whom Ramsay gifted the original manuscript. The play has some happy descriptive scenes and is a pleasant delineation of rustic manners in the countryside of the Scottish Lowlands in the 18th ...
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 his own...
