Allan Ramsay
William Henry Oliphant Smeaton
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1. Front matter2. PREFACE3. CHAPTER I THE FAMILY TREE4. CHAPTER II HIS APPRENTICESHIP; A BURGESS OF THE TOWN—1701-75. CHAPTER III SCOTLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; THE UNION; RAMSAY'S MARRIAGE—1707-126. CHAPTER IV THE EASY CLUB; EARLY POEMS; EDINBURGH OF LAST CENTURY—1712-167. CHAPTER V THE FAVOURITE AT THE 'FOUR-OORS'; FROM WIGMAKER TO BOOKSELLER; THE QUARTO OF 1721—1717-218. CHAPTER VI RAMSAY AS AN EDITOR; THE 'TEA-TABLE MISCELLANY' AND THE 'EVERGREEN'—1721-259. CHAPTER VII 'THE GENTLE SHEPHERD'; SCOTTISH IDYLLIC POETRY; RAMSAY'S PASTORALS—1725-3010. CHAPTER VIII RESTING ON HIS LAURELS; BUILDS HIS THEATRE; HIS BOOK OF 'SCOTS PROVERBS'—1730-4011. CHAPTER IX CLOSING YEARS OF LIFE; HIS HOUSE ON CASTLEHILL; HIS FAMILY; HIS PORTRAITS—1740-58.12. CHAPTER X RAMSAY AS A PASTORAL POET AND AN ELEGIST13. CHAPTER XI RAMSAY AS A SATIRIST AND A SONG-WRITER14. CHAPTER XII RAMSAY'S MISCELLANEOUS POEMS; CONCLUSION