SCOTTISH VERNACULAR LITERATURE
A Succinct History
By T. F. HENDERSON
Printed at the Constable Press, 1898
Crown 8vo, x, 464 pp. Buckram, top gilt, 6s.
Contents:—The Scottish Vernacular—Minstrelsy and Romance—Historical Poetry—The Scottish Fabliau and the Decay of Romance—The Early Chaucerians—Dunbar and Walter Kennedy—Gavin Douglas and Sir David Lyndsay—Minor and Later Poets of the 16th Century—Anonymous Poetry of the 15th and 16th Centuries—Vernacular Prose—Traditional Ballads and Songs—Before Ramsay—Ramsay to Burns—Burns and afterwards.
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Outlook.—"Truly admirable for its conciseness and adequacy of critical treatment."