The Poems And Literary Prose Of Alexander Wilson The American Ornithologist For The First Time Fully Collected And Compared With The Original And Early Editions Mss Etc Volume Volume 1

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Excerpt from The Poems and Literary Prose of Alexander Wilson, the American Ornithologist, Vol. 1: For the First Time Fully Collected and Compared With the Original and Early Editions, Etc.; Prose Mentally. R. Gardner thrown light on that Governor of New York. Of when Wmon wrote.-te tut-ml over e in. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Excerpt from Poems and Literary Prose of Alexander Wilson, the American Ornithologist, Vol. 1: For the First Time Fully Collected and Compared With the Original and Early Editions, Mss;, Etc;; Edited, With Memorial-Introduction, Essay, Notes, Illustrations, and Glossary; Prose It is a somewhat remarkable fact that with the exception of Allan Ramsay, Fergusson, and Bums, none of our Scottish vernacular poets has been so continuously kept 'in print' as Alexander Wilson. Since the publication by himself of the thin volume of 1790, and its re-issue in 1791, there never has been a time when his Poems were not obtainable through the ordinary channels. This is more than can be said of Dunbar, Henryson, Gavin Douglas, Montgomery, Alexander Scot, or Drummond, earlier; or of Meston, Ross, Skinner, Macneil, Bruce, or Tannahill, later, or even more recently of William Tennant, or Robert Nicoll. One must attribute this vitality of interest in Poetry that is not in itself of the highest, or the greatest work or workmanship of its Author, to the ever-widening and deepening fame of the "Ornithology," and to the multiplied Lives of him. As noted in the Memorial-Introduction (page xvii.) there have been seven full Lives, besides as many more, and indeed twice as many more, lesser notices, e. g.: - 1. Account of Life and Writings, prefixed to "Poems" Paisley, 1816: pp. ix.-lxxxii. 12mo. (Chiefly by Thomas Crichton.) 1. Biographical Sketches of the late Alexander Wilson... Communicated in a Series of Letters to a Young Friend: Paisley, 1819: pp. 88. 8vo. (By Thomas Crichton. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

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When talking about the Enlightenment, ornithology is seldom the first topic of conversation. Still, Enlightenment and ornithology converge in one important respect, that of abundance. In our time, new-wave ornithologists have renewed their faith in eighteenth-century expectations for the discovery of a gigantic number of bird species. It is at this intersection between abundant modern science and ambitious Enlightenment ideology that this remarkable collection of five essays on Alexander Wilson (1766-1813), the father of American ornithology, makes its original and delightful contribution. Alexander Wilson: Enlightened Naturalist recovers Wilson’s literary, artistic and musical pursuits, and the cultural contexts of his life in the Scotland of Robert Burns. It also explores Wilson’s scientific and philosophic contribution to American ornithology in American Ornithology; or The Natural History of the Birds of theUnited States, published in Philadelphia between 1808 and 1814. Alexander Wilson is richly illustrated, links to a web site of audio readings of Wilson’s Scots poems– links that are embedded in the ebook–and includes a tribute to the late Edward H. Burtt, Jr., who died shortly before publication.