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Há 5 dias · Born on June 3, 1774, Tannahill is, in my opinion, second only to Robert Burns as a poet writing chiefly in the language of the working class of Scotland. He could write beautifully in classical English, but equally so in Scots, and one of the qualities I most admire about his writing was that he was not afraid to mix English and Scots – as ...
Há 3 dias · He has a longstanding interest in ideas of progress as 'improvement' and is the author of Dialectics of Improvement: Scottish Romanticism, 1786–1831 (EUP, 2020), which is published in the 'Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism' series and won the BARS First Book Prize 2021.
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Há 5 dias · It suggests that the ‘religious Enlightenment’ in Scotland grew up from ‘enthusiastic’ theological roots, and sought to cultivate a ‘moral culture’ which conduced to national spiritual regeneration rather than merely to social peace, politeness or the Anglicisation of Scottish culture.
Há 4 dias · Since Scots is spoken throughout Scotland, labelling it ‘regional’ is problematic, although Scots has a number of regional dialects. Similarly, it would be extremely problematic to think of Scotland as merely a region of the United Kingdom, although it was known as ‘North Britain’ in the post-Union period (Millar Citation 2023 , 65).
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Há 1 dia · These experiences inspired Byron to write political poems such as Song for the Luddites (1816) and The Landlords' Interest, Canto XIV of The Age of Bronze. Examples of poems in which he attacked his political opponents include Wellington: The Best of the Cut-Throats (1819) and The Intellectual Eunuch Castlereagh (1818). Poetic works
Há 3 dias · A common name for the Scottish dialects of Northern English that stresses both their location east and south of the Highland Line and their distinctness from the languages of the Highlands (...
