Literary Criticism (1400-1800)

Fergusson, Robert | Further Reading

FURTHER READING

Biography

"Fergusson, Tannahill, and Pollock." In Dublin University Magazine LXXXVIII, No. DXXIV (July, 1934): 324-25.

Offers a descriptive interpretation of Fergusson's life and artistic sensibility.

Grosart, Alexander B. Famous Scots Series: Robert Fergusson. Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, 1898, 160 p.

Discusses Fergusson's life, career, and works. Considered by some critics to be a well-researched biography of occasionally questionable accuracy.

Criticism

MacLaine, Allan H. "The Christis Kirk Tradition: Its Evolution in Scots Poetry to Burns. Part III: the Early Eighteenth Century: Allan Ramsay and his Followers." Studies in Scottish Literature 2, No. 3 (January 1965): 163-82.

Discusses the surge of activity in the ancient Christis Kirk genre during the first half of the eighteenth...

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