The high-kilted muse [electronic resource] : Peter Buchan and his Secret songs of silence / edited by Murray Shoolbraid ; with a foreword by Ed Cray.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Buchan, Peter, 1790-1854.

Shoolbraid, Murray.

Language:

English

Scots

Subjects (All):

Ballads, Scots--Scotland--Texts.

Ballads, Scots.

Bawdy songs--Scotland--Texts.

Bawdy songs.

Buchan, Peter, 1790-1854.

Buchan, Peter.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Secret songs of silence

Place of Publication:

[Jackson] : University Press of Mississippi ; [Aberdeen] : In association with the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, c2010.

Language Note:

English and Scots.

Summary:

In 1832 the Scottish ballad collector Peter Buchan of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, presented an anthology of risqué? and convivial songs and ballads to a Highland laird. When Professor Francis James Child of Harvard was preparing his magisterial edition of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads , he made enquiries about it, but it was not made available in time to be considered for his work. On his death it was presented to the Child Memorial Library at Harvard. Because of its unseemly materials, the manuscript has languished there ever since, unprinted, though referred to now and again, and a

Contents:

Contents; Foreword: Peter Buchan and the Authenticity Controversy; Preface and Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; PETER BUCHAN: INTRODUCTION; SECRET SONGS OF SILENCE: THE TEXT; Commentary; Appendices; First Line and Title Index; General Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-275) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-62103-409-7

1-282-75586-2

9786612755866

1-60473-431-0

OCLC:

694145268