Tag: Scottish literature

Website of the Week (WoW) #150: Auld Lang Syne: The Story of a Song

Website of the Week (WoW) #150: Auld Lang Syne: The Story of a Song

This online exhibition from the Morgan Library follows the evolution of the words and music to this classic song as well the role Robert Burns played in bringing it to its published form. The song’s earliest surviving relative may be a nobleman’s commonplace book from the 1660s which records a ballad beginning “Should old acquaintance be forgot.”


The Morgan Library & Museum Online Exhibitions – – Auld Lang Syne: The Story of a Song –
www.themorgan.org
Introduction Three simple words—meaning “old,” “long,” and “since”—combine to form a phrase that translates loosely as “time gone by,” “old time’s sake,” or, in some contexts, “once upon a time.”

Website of the Week (WoW) #150: Auld Lang Syne: The Story of a Song

This online exhibition from the Morgan Library follows the evolution of the words and music to this classic song as well the role Robert Burns played in bringing it to its published form. The song’s earliest surviving relative may be a nobleman’s commonplace book from the 1660s which records a ballad beginning “Should old acquaintance be forgot.”


The Morgan Library & Museum Online Exhibitions – – Auld Lang Syne: The Story of a Song –
www.themorgan.org
Introduction Three simple words—meaning “old,” “long,” and “since”—combine to form a phrase that translates loosely as “time gone by,” “old time’s sake,” or, in some contexts, “once upon a time.”

Website of the Week (WoW) #142: Robert Burns: Inventing Tradition and Securing Memory, 1796-1909

Website of the Week (WoW) #142: Robert Burns: Inventing Tradition and Securing Memory, 1796-1909

Robert Burns is one of the most commemorated poets of all time, and this project presents a detailed database of Burns monuments worldwide and a web-based classification of the different kinds of Burns-related material culture available commercially or for domestic use. These datasets enable the whole range of images and items used in the transmission of Robert Burns’ reputation into the sphere of cultural memory to be available for study or consultation in one place for the first time.


Robert Burns: Inventing Tradition and Securing Memory, 1796-1909
www.gla.ac.uk

Website of the Week (WoW) #142: Robert Burns: Inventing Tradition and Securing Memory, 1796-1909

Robert Burns is one of the most commemorated poets of all time, and this project presents a detailed database of Burns monuments worldwide and a web-based classification of the different kinds of Burns-related material culture available commercially or for domestic use. These datasets enable the whole range of images and items used in the transmission of Robert Burns’ reputation into the sphere of cultural memory to be available for study or consultation in one place for the first time.


Robert Burns: Inventing Tradition and Securing Memory, 1796-1909
www.gla.ac.uk

Website of the Week (WoW) #117: The William Sharp “Fiona Macleod” Archive

Website of the Week (WoW) #117: The William Sharp “Fiona Macleod” Archive

Who were William Sharp and Fiona Macleod? The same person. Scottish author William Sharp decided to write a romance under a female pseudonym and found he had to keep up the fiction that Fiona was a real person in order to write more books under that name. Here’s Sharp’s correspondence under both his own name–with people such as Thomas Hardy, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Butler Yeats–and under Fiona’s. Through his Fiona letters, he used his literary skill to create a persona that endured until his death 10 years later.


The William Sharp “Fiona Macleod” Archive | Institute of English Studies
www.ies.sas.ac.uk

Website of the Week (WoW) #117: The William Sharp “Fiona Macleod” Archive

Who were William Sharp and Fiona Macleod? The same person. Scottish author William Sharp decided to write a romance under a female pseudonym and found he had to keep up the fiction that Fiona was a real person in order to write more books under that name. Here’s Sharp’s correspondence under both his own name–with people such as Thomas Hardy, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Butler Yeats–and under Fiona’s. Through his Fiona letters, he used his literary skill to create a persona that endured until his death 10 years later.


The William Sharp “Fiona Macleod” Archive | Institute of English Studies
www.ies.sas.ac.uk

Discovered at Syracuse University’s library

Discovered at Syracuse University’s library, an unpublished essay by Robert Louis Stevenson finally sees print. In it Stevenson discusses the art of capturing reality on paper.


Long-Lost Essay By Classic Author Published
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NEW YORK — Robert Louis Stevenson is the author of “Treasure Island” and “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” some of the most thrilling stories in literary history. But in a newly discovered essay, he says he was often bored by the fiction of his day.

Discovered at Syracuse University’s library, an unpublished essay by Robert Louis Stevenson finally sees print. In it Stevenson discusses the art of capturing reality on paper.


Long-Lost Essay By Classic Author Published
www.huffingtonpost.com
NEW YORK — Robert Louis Stevenson is the author of “Treasure Island” and “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” some of the most thrilling stories in literary history. But in a newly discovered essay, he says he was often bored by the fiction of his day.