Scottish Songs, Ballads, And Poems
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780404085506 (0404085504)
Publisher: AMS Press
Pages no: 216
Edition language: English
[These notes were made in 1983; I read the New York, 1855 ed.:] A slightly tedious tho' hardly objectionable collection of (mostly) short lyrics in (more or less) Lowland Scots dialect, somewhat inconsistently glossed. Much clear imitation of Burns, and the occasional good line. Ainslie did best w...