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Ye’re stridin doon the Canongate, brent new
and lookin like ye’ve never been awa,
were never found curled deid upon the straw
in Bedlam’s cells; ye’re twenty-fower and fou –
no claret-fou, but o yersel and life,
rat-rhymes and habbies rattlin through yer heid,
a book in haun, and hunners mair tae read –
the warld is yours, at least as faur as Fife…—James Robertson, “Fergusson’s Statue”
10/10
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/fergussons-statue/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #RobertFergusson #Edinburgh
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Ye’re stridin doon the Canongate, brent new
and lookin like ye’ve never been awa,
were never found curled deid upon the straw
in Bedlam’s cells; ye’re twenty-fower and fou –
no claret-fou, but o yersel and life,
rat-rhymes and habbies rattlin through yer heid,
a book in haun, and hunners mair tae read –
the warld is yours, at least as faur as Fife…—James Robertson, “Fergusson’s Statue”
10/10
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/fergussons-statue/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #RobertFergusson #Edinburgh
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Ye’re stridin doon the Canongate, brent new
and lookin like ye’ve never been awa,
were never found curled deid upon the straw
in Bedlam’s cells; ye’re twenty-fower and fou –
no claret-fou, but o yersel and life,
rat-rhymes and habbies rattlin through yer heid,
a book in haun, and hunners mair tae read –
the warld is yours, at least as faur as Fife…—James Robertson, “Fergusson’s Statue”
10/10
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/fergussons-statue/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #RobertFergusson #Edinburgh
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Ye’re stridin doon the Canongate, brent new
and lookin like ye’ve never been awa,
were never found curled deid upon the straw
in Bedlam’s cells; ye’re twenty-fower and fou –
no claret-fou, but o yersel and life,
rat-rhymes and habbies rattlin through yer heid,
a book in haun, and hunners mair tae read –
the warld is yours, at least as faur as Fife…—James Robertson, “Fergusson’s Statue”
10/10
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/fergussons-statue/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #RobertFergusson #Edinburgh
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Ye’re stridin doon the Canongate, brent new
and lookin like ye’ve never been awa,
were never found curled deid upon the straw
in Bedlam’s cells; ye’re twenty-fower and fou –
no claret-fou, but o yersel and life,
rat-rhymes and habbies rattlin through yer heid,
a book in haun, and hunners mair tae read –
the warld is yours, at least as faur as Fife…—James Robertson, “Fergusson’s Statue”
10/10
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/fergussons-statue/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #RobertFergusson #Edinburgh
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Celebrating Robert Fergusson
Prof Rhona Brown & Dr Amy Wilcockson share their insights into Fergusson’s life, works & legacy – listen free online, & hear extracts of his work read by Billy Kay & James Robertson
9/10
https://shows.acast.com/633a8ff33566c50011408793/670399a36f369dd035a09ad9
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson #podcast
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Celebrating Robert Fergusson
Prof Rhona Brown & Dr Amy Wilcockson share their insights into Fergusson’s life, works & legacy – listen free online, & hear extracts of his work read by Billy Kay & James Robertson
9/10
https://shows.acast.com/633a8ff33566c50011408793/670399a36f369dd035a09ad9
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson #podcast
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Celebrating Robert Fergusson
Prof Rhona Brown & Dr Amy Wilcockson share their insights into Fergusson’s life, works & legacy – listen free online, & hear extracts of his work read by Billy Kay & James Robertson
9/10
https://shows.acast.com/633a8ff33566c50011408793/670399a36f369dd035a09ad9
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson #podcast
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Celebrating Robert Fergusson
Prof Rhona Brown & Dr Amy Wilcockson share their insights into Fergusson’s life, works & legacy – listen free online, & hear extracts of his work read by Billy Kay & James Robertson
9/10
https://shows.acast.com/633a8ff33566c50011408793/670399a36f369dd035a09ad9
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson #podcast
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Celebrating Robert Fergusson
Prof Rhona Brown & Dr Amy Wilcockson share their insights into Fergusson’s life, works & legacy – listen free online, & hear extracts of his work read by Billy Kay & James Robertson
9/10
https://shows.acast.com/633a8ff33566c50011408793/670399a36f369dd035a09ad9
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson #podcast
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“Look round, ye sipplers of the poison’d cup
From foreign plant distill’d!”Amy Wilcockson looks at food & drink in Robert Fergusson’s poems, & sees him take aim at what tea represents: overseas trade, cosmopolitanism, & exotic tastes
8/10
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson #tea #foodhistory #BritishEmpire
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“Look round, ye sipplers of the poison’d cup
From foreign plant distill’d!”Amy Wilcockson looks at food & drink in Robert Fergusson’s poems, & sees him take aim at what tea represents: overseas trade, cosmopolitanism, & exotic tastes
8/10
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson #tea #foodhistory #BritishEmpire
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“Look round, ye sipplers of the poison’d cup
From foreign plant distill’d!”Amy Wilcockson looks at food & drink in Robert Fergusson’s poems, & sees him take aim at what tea represents: overseas trade, cosmopolitanism, & exotic tastes
8/10
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson #tea #foodhistory #BritishEmpire
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“Look round, ye sipplers of the poison’d cup
From foreign plant distill’d!”Amy Wilcockson looks at food & drink in Robert Fergusson’s poems, & sees him take aim at what tea represents: overseas trade, cosmopolitanism, & exotic tastes
8/10
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson #tea #foodhistory #BritishEmpire
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“Look round, ye sipplers of the poison’d cup
From foreign plant distill’d!”Amy Wilcockson looks at food & drink in Robert Fergusson’s poems, & sees him take aim at what tea represents: overseas trade, cosmopolitanism, & exotic tastes
8/10
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson #tea #foodhistory #BritishEmpire
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(Robert Fergusson’s poem ☝️ is basically just this gag 👇 in verse form)
7/10
https://youtu.be/hOSYiT2iG08?t=66
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson #SamuelJohnson #humour #Blackadder
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(Robert Fergusson’s poem ☝️ is basically just this gag 👇 in verse form)
7/10
https://youtu.be/hOSYiT2iG08?t=66
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson #SamuelJohnson #humour #Blackadder
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(Robert Fergusson’s poem ☝️ is basically just this gag 👇 in verse form)
7/10
https://youtu.be/hOSYiT2iG08?t=66
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson #SamuelJohnson #humour #Blackadder
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(Robert Fergusson’s poem ☝️ is basically just this gag 👇 in verse form)
7/10
https://youtu.be/hOSYiT2iG08?t=66
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson #SamuelJohnson #humour #Blackadder
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(Robert Fergusson’s poem ☝️ is basically just this gag 👇 in verse form)
7/10
https://youtu.be/hOSYiT2iG08?t=66
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson #SamuelJohnson #humour #Blackadder
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GREAT PEDAGOGUE, whose literarian lore,
With SYLLABLE and SYLLABLE conjoin’d,
To transmutate and varyfy, has learn’d
The whole revolving scientific names
That in the alphabetic columns lie,
Far from the knowledge of mortalic shapes,
As we, who never can peroculate
The miracles by thee miraculiz’d…—Robert Fergusson, “To Dr Samuel Johnson: Food for a New Edition of his Dictionary”
6/10
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson #SamuelJohnson #satire
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GREAT PEDAGOGUE, whose literarian lore,
With SYLLABLE and SYLLABLE conjoin’d,
To transmutate and varyfy, has learn’d
The whole revolving scientific names
That in the alphabetic columns lie,
Far from the knowledge of mortalic shapes,
As we, who never can peroculate
The miracles by thee miraculiz’d…—Robert Fergusson, “To Dr Samuel Johnson: Food for a New Edition of his Dictionary”
6/10
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson #SamuelJohnson #satire
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GREAT PEDAGOGUE, whose literarian lore,
With SYLLABLE and SYLLABLE conjoin’d,
To transmutate and varyfy, has learn’d
The whole revolving scientific names
That in the alphabetic columns lie,
Far from the knowledge of mortalic shapes,
As we, who never can peroculate
The miracles by thee miraculiz’d…—Robert Fergusson, “To Dr Samuel Johnson: Food for a New Edition of his Dictionary”
6/10
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson #SamuelJohnson #satire
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GREAT PEDAGOGUE, whose literarian lore,
With SYLLABLE and SYLLABLE conjoin’d,
To transmutate and varyfy, has learn’d
The whole revolving scientific names
That in the alphabetic columns lie,
Far from the knowledge of mortalic shapes,
As we, who never can peroculate
The miracles by thee miraculiz’d…—Robert Fergusson, “To Dr Samuel Johnson: Food for a New Edition of his Dictionary”
6/10
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson #SamuelJohnson #satire
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GREAT PEDAGOGUE, whose literarian lore,
With SYLLABLE and SYLLABLE conjoin’d,
To transmutate and varyfy, has learn’d
The whole revolving scientific names
That in the alphabetic columns lie,
Far from the knowledge of mortalic shapes,
As we, who never can peroculate
The miracles by thee miraculiz’d…—Robert Fergusson, “To Dr Samuel Johnson: Food for a New Edition of his Dictionary”
6/10
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson #SamuelJohnson #satire
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In this BBC documentary, first broadcast in 2015, writer Andrew O’Hagan tracks down Robert Fergusson’s story in the streets & wynds of Edinburgh’s Old Town
5/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b0vtAWmY7g
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson
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In this BBC documentary, first broadcast in 2015, writer Andrew O’Hagan tracks down Robert Fergusson’s story in the streets & wynds of Edinburgh’s Old Town
5/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b0vtAWmY7g
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson
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In this BBC documentary, first broadcast in 2015, writer Andrew O’Hagan tracks down Robert Fergusson’s story in the streets & wynds of Edinburgh’s Old Town
5/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b0vtAWmY7g
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson
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In this BBC documentary, first broadcast in 2015, writer Andrew O’Hagan tracks down Robert Fergusson’s story in the streets & wynds of Edinburgh’s Old Town
5/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b0vtAWmY7g
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson
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In this BBC documentary, first broadcast in 2015, writer Andrew O’Hagan tracks down Robert Fergusson’s story in the streets & wynds of Edinburgh’s Old Town
5/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b0vtAWmY7g
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson
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(The full text of Fergusson’s “Auld Reikie, A Poem”, ☝️ written in 1773, is available here)
4/10
https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/auld-reikie
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson
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(The full text of Fergusson’s “Auld Reikie, A Poem”, ☝️ written in 1773, is available here)
4/10
https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/auld-reikie
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson
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(The full text of Fergusson’s “Auld Reikie, A Poem”, ☝️ written in 1773, is available here)
4/10
https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/auld-reikie
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson
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(The full text of Fergusson’s “Auld Reikie, A Poem”, ☝️ written in 1773, is available here)
4/10
https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/auld-reikie
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson
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(The full text of Fergusson’s “Auld Reikie, A Poem”, ☝️ written in 1773, is available here)
4/10
https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/auld-reikie
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson
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On stair wi tub, or pat in hand,
The barefoot housemaids loo to stand,
That antrin fock may ken how snell
Auld Reikie will at morning smell…—from “Auld Reikie”, by Robert Fergusson – a panoramic poetical survey of the sights, sounds, & odours of 18th-century Edinburgh…
3/10
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson
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On stair wi tub, or pat in hand,
The barefoot housemaids loo to stand,
That antrin fock may ken how snell
Auld Reikie will at morning smell…—from “Auld Reikie”, by Robert Fergusson – a panoramic poetical survey of the sights, sounds, & odours of 18th-century Edinburgh…
3/10
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson
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On stair wi tub, or pat in hand,
The barefoot housemaids loo to stand,
That antrin fock may ken how snell
Auld Reikie will at morning smell…—from “Auld Reikie”, by Robert Fergusson – a panoramic poetical survey of the sights, sounds, & odours of 18th-century Edinburgh…
3/10
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson
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On stair wi tub, or pat in hand,
The barefoot housemaids loo to stand,
That antrin fock may ken how snell
Auld Reikie will at morning smell…—from “Auld Reikie”, by Robert Fergusson – a panoramic poetical survey of the sights, sounds, & odours of 18th-century Edinburgh…
3/10
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson
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On stair wi tub, or pat in hand,
The barefoot housemaids loo to stand,
That antrin fock may ken how snell
Auld Reikie will at morning smell…—from “Auld Reikie”, by Robert Fergusson – a panoramic poetical survey of the sights, sounds, & odours of 18th-century Edinburgh…
3/10
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson
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Robert Fergusson was described by Robert Burns as “my elder brother in the muse”. In this podcast for the Scottish Poetry Library, Robert Crawford, Ally Heather & Kathleen Jamie explore Fergusson’s life, work, & untimely death
2/10
https://player.captivate.fm/episode/a8414cd5-943c-40fc-be6f-97ebbcfa8af4
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson #podcast
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Robert Fergusson was described by Robert Burns as “my elder brother in the muse”. In this podcast for the Scottish Poetry Library, Robert Crawford, Ally Heather & Kathleen Jamie explore Fergusson’s life, work, & untimely death
2/10
https://player.captivate.fm/episode/a8414cd5-943c-40fc-be6f-97ebbcfa8af4
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson #podcast
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Robert Fergusson was described by Robert Burns as “my elder brother in the muse”. In this podcast for the Scottish Poetry Library, Robert Crawford, Ally Heather & Kathleen Jamie explore Fergusson’s life, work, & untimely death
2/10
https://player.captivate.fm/episode/a8414cd5-943c-40fc-be6f-97ebbcfa8af4
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson #podcast
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Robert Fergusson was described by Robert Burns as “my elder brother in the muse”. In this podcast for the Scottish Poetry Library, Robert Crawford, Ally Heather & Kathleen Jamie explore Fergusson’s life, work, & untimely death
2/10
https://player.captivate.fm/episode/a8414cd5-943c-40fc-be6f-97ebbcfa8af4
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson #podcast
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Robert Fergusson was described by Robert Burns as “my elder brother in the muse”. In this podcast for the Scottish Poetry Library, Robert Crawford, Ally Heather & Kathleen Jamie explore Fergusson’s life, work, & untimely death
2/10
https://player.captivate.fm/episode/a8414cd5-943c-40fc-be6f-97ebbcfa8af4
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson #podcast
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Daft gowk, in macaroni dress,
Are ye come here to shaw your face,
Bowden wi’ pride o’ simmer gloss,
To cast a dash at Reikie’s cross…—“On Seeing a Butterfly in the Street”, by Robert Fergusson (1750–1774) – born #OTD, 5 Sept. In his short life he reinvigorated #poetry in Scots. A 🎂🧵
1/10
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson
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Daft gowk, in macaroni dress,
Are ye come here to shaw your face,
Bowden wi’ pride o’ simmer gloss,
To cast a dash at Reikie’s cross…—“On Seeing a Butterfly in the Street”, by Robert Fergusson (1750–1774) – born #OTD, 5 Sept. In his short life he reinvigorated #poetry in Scots. A 🎂🧵
1/10
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson
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Daft gowk, in macaroni dress,
Are ye come here to shaw your face,
Bowden wi’ pride o’ simmer gloss,
To cast a dash at Reikie’s cross…—“On Seeing a Butterfly in the Street”, by Robert Fergusson (1750–1774) – born #OTD, 5 Sept. In his short life he reinvigorated #poetry in Scots. A 🎂🧵
1/10
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson
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Daft gowk, in macaroni dress,
Are ye come here to shaw your face,
Bowden wi’ pride o’ simmer gloss,
To cast a dash at Reikie’s cross…—“On Seeing a Butterfly in the Street”, by Robert Fergusson (1750–1774) – born #OTD, 5 Sept. In his short life he reinvigorated #poetry in Scots. A 🎂🧵
1/10
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson
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Daft gowk, in macaroni dress,
Are ye come here to shaw your face,
Bowden wi’ pride o’ simmer gloss,
To cast a dash at Reikie’s cross…—“On Seeing a Butterfly in the Street”, by Robert Fergusson (1750–1774) – born #OTD, 5 Sept. In his short life he reinvigorated #poetry in Scots. A 🎂🧵
1/10
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #Edinburgh #RobertFergusson