The Modern Scottish Minstrel; or, The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century - Volume VI (Esprios Classics): Edited by Charles Rogers (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781715840402)

"Scotland has probably produced a more patriotic and more extended minstrelsy than any other country in the world. Those Caledonian harp-strains, styled by Sir Walter Scott "gems of our own mountains," have frequently been gathered into caskets of national song, but have never been stored in any complete cabinet; while no attempt has been made, at least on an ample scale, to adapt, by means of suitable metrical translations, the minstrelsy of the Ga? for Lowland melody. The present work has been undertaken with the view of supplying these deficiencies, and with the further design of extending the fame of those cultivators of Scottish song-hitherto partially obscured by untoward circumstances, or on account of their own diffidence-and of affording a stimulus towards the future cultivation of national poetry."

Author: Various
ISBN-10: 1715840402
ISBN-13: 9781715840402
Publisher: Blurb
Language: English
Published: 04/26/2024
Pages: 268
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d