Author:Allan Ramsay

For authors with similar names, see Author:Allen Ramsay.

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Allan Ramsay
(1686–1758)

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Scottish poet (or makar), playwright, publisher, librarian and wig-maker

Portrait of Allan Ramsay by William Aikman

Works

Publications

Chrysts-Kirke on the Greene (1716)
Scots Songs (1719)
Poems (1720) (external scan)
Fables and Tales (1722)
Tale of Three Bonnets (1722)
The Fair Assembly (1723)
Health (1724)
Tea-Table Miscellany (1724-27), in 3 vols.
The Ever Green: Being a Collection of Scots Poems, Wrote by the Ingenious before 1600 (1724–7), in 2 vols.
The Gentle Shepherd (1725)

Individual poems and songs

"Auld Lang Syne"
"Bonny Christy"
"The Monk and the Miller's Wife"
"The Soger Laddie"
"Somebody"
"There's my thumb" (Betty, early gone a Maying)
"There's my thumb" (My sweetest May, let love incline thee)

Works about Ramsay

"Ramsay, Allan," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
"Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
Allan Ramsay (1896), by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton (external scan)
"Ramsay, Allan," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
"Ramsay, Allan (poet)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1930, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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