The Poetry of William Forbes of Disblair (1661-1740)
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Arguing that the early 18th century Scottish poet William Forbes has been given too little attention, introduces some of the issues in settling the canon of Forbes's work, and discusses both Forbes's anti-Union political poetry, notably The True Scots Genius, Reviving (1704), and A Pil for Pork-Eaters (1705), and his later dialogue on marriage, Xantippe: or the Scolding Wife (1724), an original development from a Latin dialogue by Erasmus. An appendix gives details of the eleven published poems attributable to Forbes.
Date issued
2019Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Literature SectionJournal
Studies in Scottish Literature
Publisher
University of South Carolina Libraries
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Donaldson, William. "The Poetry of William Forbes of Disblair (1661-1740)." Studies in Scottish Literature 45, 2 (2019): 121–137
Version: Final published version