Abstract
Discusses the importance and pervasiveness of Latin, including original Latin verse, in early 18th century Scotland, among Jacobites and in Ramsay's Edinburgh circle, with attention to the work of Archibald Pitcairne, Thomas Ruddiman, and later Robert Fergusson; examines Ramsay's own Scots translations of Horace and his use of the Horatian tradition, and looks also at translations from Ramsay into Latin by Alexander Fraser Tytler; and concludes that Ramsay's Scots poetry "helped to maintain" a Scottish link "to the classical past, by presenting the works of classical authors to new and growing audiences in Scotland in a language which was accessible and understandable."
Recommended Citation
McLean, Ralph
(2020)
"'Compylit in Latin': Allan Ramsay and Scoto-Latinity in the Eighteenth Century,"
Studies in Scottish Literature:
Vol. 46:
Iss.
2, 61–.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol46/iss2/6