Poems of Alexander Montgomerie

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Excerpt from Poems of Alexander Montgomerie: And Other Pieces From Laing Ms. No, 447§i. The object of this supplementary volume may be brie¿y explained. During the interval of now rather more than twenty years since the late Dr Cranstoun edited the poems of Montgomerie for the Society, a consider able amount Of new material has been found which has an important bearing on the text of the poet's writings, and which also adds in a most interesting way to our scanty knowledge of his personal history. Especially notable is the recovery of three neglected manuscripts, the first public mention of which we owe to Dr Rudolf Brotanek of Vienna, 1 whose valuable monograph on Montgomerie deserves to be better known in Scotland than it is. Two of these at least, and possibly also the third, although this is not so likely, date, there can be no reasonable doubt, from Montgomerie's own lifetime. One, the Tullibardine copy of the Flyting with Polwart, goes back, indeed, if the present editor's View as to the.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.