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Scottish Proverbs
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356 pages, Paperback
First published May 25, 2013
About the author
William Motherwell
111 booksWilliam Motherwell was a Scottish poet, antiquary and journalist.
Motherwell studied classics for a winter term at Glasgow University between 1818 and 1819. He was appointed sheriff-clerk depute in Paisley in 1819. He spent his leisure in collecting materials for a volume of local ballads which he published in 1819 under the title of The Harp of Renfrewshire. In 1827 he published a further instalment in Minstrelsy Ancient and Modern, prefaced by an historical introduction. This work was to provide evidence of the work of notable women like Agnes Lyle. He contributed verses to newspapers and magazines, "Jeanie Morrison", "My Heid is like to rend, Willie", and "Wearies Cauld Well" being his best-known poems. He became editor of the Paisley Advertiser in 1828, and of the Glasgow Courier in 1830. He was the publisher of the short-lived daily literary paper The Day between January and June 1832.
A small volume of his poems was published in 1832, and a larger volume with a memoir in 1846, reissued, with additions, in 1848.
Motherwell studied classics for a winter term at Glasgow University between 1818 and 1819. He was appointed sheriff-clerk depute in Paisley in 1819. He spent his leisure in collecting materials for a volume of local ballads which he published in 1819 under the title of The Harp of Renfrewshire. In 1827 he published a further instalment in Minstrelsy Ancient and Modern, prefaced by an historical introduction. This work was to provide evidence of the work of notable women like Agnes Lyle. He contributed verses to newspapers and magazines, "Jeanie Morrison", "My Heid is like to rend, Willie", and "Wearies Cauld Well" being his best-known poems. He became editor of the Paisley Advertiser in 1828, and of the Glasgow Courier in 1830. He was the publisher of the short-lived daily literary paper The Day between January and June 1832.
A small volume of his poems was published in 1832, and a larger volume with a memoir in 1846, reissued, with additions, in 1848.
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