Satirical Poems of the Time of the Reformation (1); Introduction. Biographical Notices. Satirical Poems

Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1891 Original Publisher: Printed for the Society by W. Blackwood and Sons Subjects: Poetry Satire, Scottish Scotland Scottish poetry History / General Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / General Poetry / American / General Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: The thirty-fourth poem is necessary in its place for a proper understanding and appreciation of the two pieces immediately following. VL -- BIBLIOGRAPHY. As all the bibliographical information I have been able to glean regarding them is prefixed to the different poems, it is almost unnecessary to do more than refer to the matter here. Suffice it to say that most of them have been issued in some form or other. Those in the Maitland MS. were printed by John Pinkerton in ' Ancient Scotish Poems, published from the MS. Collections of Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington, Knight' (London, 1786), 2 vols. crown 8vo. Pinkerton was not the most conscientious or painstaking of editors, but it is by his transcript alone that many pieces in the Maitland MS. have hitherto been accessible to the English reader. Several of the longer pieces were printed by Sir John Graham Dalyell in his ' Scotish Poems of the Sixteenth Century' (Edinburgh, 1801), 2 vols. I2mo. Of the general merit of these volumes it is impossible to speak too highly. A much larger collection was issued in a handsome volume entitled 'The Sempill Ballates,' by Thomas George Stevenson (Edinburgh, 1872), 8vo. The typography and general appearance of the volume are all that could be desired, but errors in transcription render many passages wholly unintelligible. The Poems by Joh...