The High-Kilted Muse: Peter Buchan and His Secret Songs of Silence

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university Press of Mississippi in association with the elphinstone institute, university of Aberdeen, scotland The High-Kilted Muse PeTer BuchAn And his Secret SongS of Silence edited by Murray shoolbraid With a Foreword by ed cray www.upress.state.ms.us The university Press of Mississippi is a member of the Association of American university Presses. Page ii: engraving of Peter Buchan, by W. & A. K. Johnston [1828], after the oil painting by James Forbes, 1827. image courtesy of Aberdeenshire council. copyright © 2010 by university Press of Mississippi All rights reserved Manufactured in the united states of America First printing 2010 ∞ library of congress cataloging-in-Publication data The high-kilted muse : Peter Buchan and his secret songs of silence / edited by Murray shoolbraid ; foreword by ed cray. p. cm. scots, with pref. and commentary in english. includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-60473-417-1 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Ballads, scots—scotland—Texts. 2. Bawdy songs—scotland— Texts. 3. Buchan, Peter, 1790–1854. i. Buchan, Peter, 1790–1854. ii. shoolbraid, Murray. iii. Title: secret songs of silence. Ml54.6.h54 2010 782.42162’916300268—dc22 2009031477 British library cataloging-in-Publication data available in Memoriam William Bruce Olson 1930–2003 ballad scholar and friend This page intentionally left blank ...