Abstract
Describes and discusses the nature and uses of poetry by Scottish labouring-class participants in the revival at Cambuslang, near Glasgow, in 1741, drawing on the manuscript account of the revival collected by the parish minister, William McCulloch; setting the poems in the context of recent scholarly reconsideration of 17th and 18th century Scottish religious culture; relating the poems to the Scottish use of metrical psalms in kirk services and domestic devotions; and commenting in detail on poems by Alexander Bilsland and George Tassie, and a report on religious poetry reading by Ann Wylie.
Recommended Citation
Jajdelska, Elspeth
(2016)
"'Singing of psalms of which I could never get enough': labouring class religion and poetry in the Cambuslang revival of 1741,"
Studies in Scottish Literature:
Vol. 41:
Iss.
1, 88–107.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol41/iss1/11