The Muses Threnodie - Henry Adamson

The Muses Threnodie

Or Mirthfull Mournings on the Death of Master Gall

(Autor)

David J. Parkinson (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
374 Seiten
2024
Scottish Text Society (Verlag)
978-1-897976-50-0 (ISBN)
74,80 inkl. MwSt
This edition of a seventeenth-century Scottish poem gives modern audiences insight into the ways previous generations perceived and engaged with local nature and architecture.


Henry Adamson's "The Muses Threnodie" (1638) offers insights into the lives, amusements and anxieties of of the residents of the town of Perth. In it, two of Perth's citizens venture out on foot and by boat into the vicinity of their cramped, closely overseen town. In whimsically funny conversations, they observe local natural phenomena and landmarks while discussing the buried, ruined evidence of the region's architectural history. Their perceptions of waterways and landforms highlight their sometimes conflicted understanding of historical change at Perth on the eve of the Scottish National Covenant.


The beguilingly inglorious verse in which Henry Adamson clothes his characters' sentiments serves as the outermost layer of several stylistic misdirections, as if to distract official attention from any dangerous contemporary criticism within.

DAVID J. PARKINSON is an emeritus Professor of the Department of English at the University of Saskatchewan. The Scottish Text Society published his edition of Alexander Montgomerie's poems in 2000.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction

Text
1. Pre. Title Page
2. Pre. Dedication
3. Pre. To the Reader - William Drummond, Letter to Henry Adamson
4. Pre. Henry Adamson, The Inventarie of the Gabions
5. Pre. Henry Adamson, An Apologie of the Author
6. Pre. Thomas Crawford, De authoris præmaturo obitu
7. Pre. John Adamson, To Perth
8. Pre. Thomas Crawford, On Patrick Adamson
9. Pre. In authorem libri
10. Pre. Ad Pertham
11. Pre. John Moore, To the Memorie of the Author

1. Mu. The First Muse
2. Mu. The Second Muse
3. Mu. The Third Muse
4. Mu. The Fourth Muse
5. Mu. The Fifth Muse
6. Mu. The Sixth Muse
7. Mu. The Seventh Muse
8. Mu. The Eighth Muse
9. Mu. The Ninth Muse

Textual Notes
Explanatory Notes
Bibliography
Glossary
Index of names and places in the poem

Erscheint lt. Verlag 17.12.2024
Reihe/Serie Scottish Text Society Fifth Series
Verlagsort Edinburgh
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Lyrik / Dramatik Lyrik / Gedichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik Regional- / Landesgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte
ISBN-10 1-897976-50-X / 189797650X
ISBN-13 978-1-897976-50-0 / 9781897976500
Zustand Neuware
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