A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter on the Poetry, Humour, and Literary History of the Scottish Language and an Appendix of Scottish Proverbs (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Charles Mackay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0282294996 ISBN 13: 9780282294991

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter on the Poetry, Humour, and Literary History of the Scottish Language and an Appendix of Scottish Proverbs

In the year 1870, the author contributed tvm papers to Blackwood's Magazine on The Poetry and Humour of the Scottish Language. Those papa-s are here reprinted with such copious additions as have extended the work to more than treble its original dimensions. The whole has under gone careful revision and emendation, and will, it is hoped, be found tocontain not onlycharactexisticspecimensof the peculiar humour, but of the abounding poetical genius of the ancient and modern authors who have adorned the literature of Scotland from the days of Barbour, Douglas, and Mont gomerytothoseof Allan ramsay,bobert Burns, and Walter Scott, and down to our own times.

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Charles Mackay (1841-1889) was born in Perth, Scotland. His mother died shortly after his birth, and his father, who had been in turn a Lieutenant on a Royal Navy sloop (captured and imprisoned for four years in France) and then an Ensign in the 47th foot taking part in the ill-fated Walcheren Expedition where he contracted malaria, sent young Charles to live with a nurse in Woolwich in 1822. After a couple of years' education in Brussels from 1828-1830, he became a journalist and songwriter in London. He worked on The Morning Chronicle from 1835-1844, when he was appointed Editor of The Glasgow Argus. His song The Good Time Coming sold 400,000 copies in 1846, the year that he was awarded his Doctorate of Literature by Glasgow University. He was a friend of influential figures such as Charles Dickens and Henry Russell, and moved to London to work on The Illustrated London News in 1848, and he became Editor of it in 1852. He was a correspondent for The Times during the American Civil War, but thereafter concentrated on writing books. Apart from Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, he is best remembered for his songs and his Dictionary of Lowland Scotch.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0282294996
• ISBN 13: 9780282294991
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 432