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2 février 2018
- handle: 10670/1.p9a54b
- isbn: 9782878541649
- eisbn: 9782878548365
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Michael Murphy, « Allan Ramsay (1686-1758): Jacobite War or Hanoverian Peace? », Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, ID : 10670/1.p9a54b
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A number of myths have been created about Allan Ramsay “the Scottish Jacobite poet.” The oldest of these developed from the introductory “Life” to Chalmers’s edition of 1800 which indicates that the “hilarity” of the Easy Club, of which Ramsay had been a founding member, “was suppressed by the rebellion of 1715” (14). The meaning is that the activities of this Edinburgh club, “consisting of young men… who wished to pass stated evenings in free conversation and social mirth” (13), were ended b...