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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Wittig, Kurt, 1914- Scottish tradition in literature. Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1958 (OCoLC)609610192 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kurt Wittig |
| OCLC Number: | 232717 |
| Description: | viii, 352 p. 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Part I: Spring tide -- First stirrings: John Barbour -- Full tide: The makars -- Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, Gavin Douglas -- Ebbing: David Lyndsay -- The pattern left in the sand: the background of the minor poets from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century -- A treasure-trove: the Scottish ballads -- Part II: Autumn Tide -- Surging up: The eighteenth century -- The Anglo-Scots -- The north Britons and Scottish prose -- The Scots tradition -- The Scottish Gaelic tradition -- High water mark -- Robert Burns (1759-96) -- Walter Scott -- Backwash: The nineteenth century -- The emigrants -- The stay-at-homes -- Part III: Another spring? -- Heaving again: From Stevenson to World War I -- Prose -- Poetry -- Breakers: the Scottish renaissance -- The modern makars -- Scottish Drama -- The modern novel |
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