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Allan Ramsay

Born

in Leadhills, Lanarkshire, Scotland

October 15, 1684

Died

January 07, 1758

Genre

Poetry In Scots, Drama

Influences

James Watson, Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, Gawin Douglas, David Ly ...more

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Allan Ramsay was a Scottish playwright, publisher, librarian, and impresario who lived in early Enlightenment Edinburgh. His works include the pastoral drama The Gentle Shepherd (1725).

Ramsay probably attended the parish school at Crawfordjohn. He at the age of 16 years in 1700 apprenticed as a wig maker in Edinburgh and later set up his own wig-making business. Always a voracious reader, he began composing verses and in 1712 he was one of the founders of the Easy Club, a group of like-minded men who enjoyed literary discussions over a bottle of claret.

He is best known for his Tea-Table Miscellany (1724 - 1737), a highly regarded and influential collection of Scottish song, The Ever Green (1724), which brought work by the medieval Makar ...more

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Allan Ramsay’s books

Average rating: 3.61 · 75 ratings · 14 reviews · 351 distinct works

	The Gentle Shepherd: a Scots Pastoral Comedy 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1725 — 220 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ye'll no sell your hen on a rainy day - and other canny Scottish proverbs 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1739	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tea-Table Miscellany, Volume 1 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1724 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Canterbury Poets: Poems, Selected and Arranged, with a Biographical Sketch of the Poet really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gentle Shepherd by Allan Ramsay, Steve Newman (Editor), David McGuinness (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1769 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Works of Allan Ramsay, with Life of the Author, Volume 2 liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Scriblers Lash'd liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1718 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poems by Allan Ramsay and Robert Fergusson by Allan Ramsay, Robert Fergusson, Alexander Manson Kinghorn (Editor) it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1974 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Elegies on Maggy Johnston, John Cowper, and Lucky Wood, Corrected and Amended it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Select Poetical Works of Allan Ramsay, Including his Gentle Shepherd. With a Prefatory Memoir of the Author and His Writings by Allan Ramsay, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars