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2 février 2018
- handle: 10670/1.7rg8ve
- isbn: 9782878541083
- eisbn: 9782878548679
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Europe Grande-Bretagne Écosse siècle des Lumières Literature, British Isles International Relations HIS015000 HBJD1Sujets proches
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Michael Murphy, « Allan Ramsay’s Imitations of La Motte: The Poetic Language of Cultural Federalism », Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, ID : 10670/1.7rg8ve
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I have previously described Allan Ramsay as the uncrowned laureate of Scottish national and linguistic powerlessness, a poet articulating the relatively young crisis of Lowland Scottish identity. His imitations of Horace concentrate on the homely persona to the exclusion of the urbane one, that of the imperial court poet, become irrelevant to a post-Union Scotland shorn of its royal, aristocratic and parliamentary life and power. Furthermore, the language of these imitations moves strikingly—...