Dr Ian McCormickFeb 3
John Barbour's THE BRUCE: "the poem now presented to the reader for the first time, in it's genuine ancient dress, has already gone thro' about twenty editions in Scotland since the year 1616" #Scots #Scotland #literature #history #epic #archaic
Show threadDr Ian McCormickFeb 3
"The original MS. from it's orthography, appears to have been copied from one co-eval with the author; for the spelling is more barbaric, and uncouth" --- Preface, John Barbour's THE BRUCE, p. ix. #Scots #Scotland #literature #history #epic #archaic
Show threadDr Ian McCormickFeb 3
" ... the oldest monument of the Scotish [sic] language. A monument which may well bear company with the best early poetry which any modern country can boast." p. x --- Preface, John Barbour's THE BRUCE #Scots #Scotland #literature #history #epic #archaic
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"Perhaps the editor may be accused of nationality, when he says that, taking the total merits of this work together, he prefers it to the early exertions of even the Italian muse, to the melancholy sublimity of Dante, and the amorous quaintness of Petrarca" #Scots #literature #history #epic
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Show threadDr Ian McCormickFeb 3
"Ennius we should worship as we do groves whose age has made them sacred, and whose huge and ancient trees have come to have more sanctity about them than beauty." #Scots #literature #history #epic #Bruce