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  1. SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW 17/2 (Autumn/Winter 2025)

    The latest issue of Scottish Literary Review is online now via Project MUSE (institutional access required). Print copies will be in the mail to subscribers shortly! Papers range from medieval poetry, through 18th- & 19th-century literature, to Muriel Spark & the Brontës

    @litstudies

    muse.jhu.edu/issue/55415

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #medieval #18thcentury #19thcentury #20thcentury #JamesHogg #RobertBurns #MurielSpark #Brontes

  2. Douglas Kay & Martin Philip – AKA the folk duo The Sorries – recorded a podcast about “Killiecrankie”, discussing the publication of the song, the figures & events which inspired it, & how it played a pivotal role in bringing the pair together

    scottishsongguide.com/2015/09/

    #Scottish #literature #song #folksong #Jacobite #18thcentury #19thcentury #RobertBurns #JamesHogg #Scots #Scotslanguage #Scotstober #gled

  3. The bauld Pitcur fell in a furr,
    And Clavers gat a clankie, O,
    Or I had fed an Athol gled
    On the braes o’ Killicrankie, O…

    —“Killicrankie”, from James Hogg’s JACOBITE RELICS OF SCOTLAND (1819). Verses 1–3 are attributed to Robert Burns; Hogg may have written the rest

    #Scottish #literature #18thcentury #19thcentury #RobertBurns #JamesHogg #song #folksong #Jacobite #Scots #Scotslanguage #Scotstober #gled