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The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Allan Ramsay

The Ever Green

By Allan Ramsay, Murray Pittock and James J. Caudle

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The first scholarly edition of Allan Ramsay’s Ever Green
  • This new edition includes the first published edition, where it is treated as if it was authored by Ramsay, and records variants from manuscript drafts in the notes
  • Makes full use of all MS and printed sources, and provides detailed information on publishing history, as well as the recording of Ramsay’s own variants and contextual annotation
  • Includes a sample of Ruddiman’s ornaments for the text in the prefatory matter
  • Includes editorial annotations and textual apparatus to supplement the volumes as endnotes and end matter

Alongside the other volumes in this new Collected Works, The Ever Green will transform academic and popular understanding of this pivotal but, until now, largely under-researched literary figure. It offers the first full and consistent edition of this text, based on the Bannatyne and other MSS (including an allegedly lost printed text of Alexander Montgomerie’s Cherrie and the Slae). This volume contains the entire text of the 1724 two volume collection (including the prefatory material, also reproduced-but without MS variants- in Prose), an introduction explaining Ramsay’s relationship with the material, how he came to be acquainted with it, and an explanation of his strategy to both present and co-create a Scottish literary tradition from before the Union of the Crowns in 1603. It also includes comprehensive notes on the text as Ramsay presents it.

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It is worth pointing out the usefulness of the associated website[…]The materials bring home that the edition produced by this team is not merely the set of Ramsay’s known works edited to the highest attainable degree of correctness. The notes, prefaces, and accompanying material also demonstrate the vast body of knowledge possessed by the team members, which makes possible the edition’s high degree of accuracy and comprehensiveness.

This edition is foundational to the study of Scottish literature, whether of that written in response to The Ever Green, or of that written earlier and edited in The Ever Green: in both cases, Pittock and Caudle illuminate the ways in which Ramsay helped reimagine a Scottish literary tradition for the eighteenth century.

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

General Editor’s Preface Biography of Allan Ramsay

TEXT

Introduction

The Ever Green

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The Ever Green

II

NOTES

The Ever Green

I

The Ever Green

II

Glossary

Notes to the Glossary

Appendix

Bibliography

Index of Short Titles

Index of First Lines

About the contributors

Allan Ramsay

Allan Ramsay (c. 1684–1758) was a foundationally important poet, dramatist, song collector, theatre owner, cultural leader in art and music, and innovative entrepreneur in many spheres from language to libraries.

Murray Pittock

Murray Pittock MAE FRSE is Bradley Professor and Pro Vice-Principal at the University of Glasgow, and Scotland’s leading cultural historian. A prizewinner of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the British Academy, he has held visiting appointments or spoken at the universities of UC Berkeley, Boston, Cambridge, Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, UCL, New York University, Notre Dame, Oslo, Oxford, the Sorbonne, Virginia, Yale, Gresham College, the British Academy, The British Museum, Hampton Court, the Smithsonian, the House of Commons and many other locations. He is the General Editor of the Collected Works of Allan Ramsay.

James J. Caudle

James J. Caudle has been a Research Associate at the University of Glasgow for the past five years. During his time at Glasgow, he has been part of the teams working on the pathbreaking Oxford Robert Burns (Correspondence) and Edinburgh Allan Ramsay (The Ever Green) Editions. Before that, he was employed as the Associate Editor of the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell (2000–2017), and as a Professor at Ouachita Baptist University (1996–2000). He has received research fellowships from the Huntington and the Clark Libraries, and has also been awarded visiting fellowships at Lyon College and the University of St. Andrews. His research interests are in eighteenth-century British Studies, focusing on the social history of ideas (including clubs), the history of the book and publishing trade (including censorship and copyright), political thought in early modern mass media (particularly Georgian loyalist political sermons 1714–1789), and the functions of amateur or social verse in Georgian culture (looking at James Boswell and other versifiers and songsters as the ‘Contemporaries of Burns’).

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