The Gentle Shepherd is a pastoral comedy by Allan Ramsay. It was first published in 1725 and dedicated to Susanna Montgomery, Lady Eglinton, to whom Ramsay...

to the early naturalistic literary reaction of the 18th century. His The Gentle Shepherd, showed an appreciation of country life and anticipates the attitude...

and his Illustrations of the Gentle Shepherd (based on Allan Ramsay's poem The Gentle Shepherd). He was sometimes called the "Scottish Hogarth", although...

of walking in a stately fashion which became known as 'the Eglinton air'. The Gentle Shepherd, first published in 1725, was dedicated to her by Allan...

Daphnis and Chloe was the model of La Sireine of Honoré d'Urfé, the Aminta of Torquato Tasso, and The Gentle Shepherd of Allan Ramsay. The novel Paul et Virginie...

of Allan Ramsay's The Gentle shepherd between 1743 and 1793; and an edition of Robert Burns' poetry in 1787, the same year as the Edinburgh edition,...

poems in the folk style and "gentilizings" of Scots poems in the English neo-classical style. His pastoral opera The Gentle Shepherd was one of the most influential...

entertain the audience. Gay used Scottish folk melodies mostly taken from the poet Allan Ramsay's hugely popular collection The Gentle Shepherd (1725) plus...

shepherd over her husband's house and his children. So all of you are shepherds, and every one of you is responsible for his herd." One of the gentle...

in The Merchants o Renoun presentation of Allan Ramsay's The Gentle Shepherd staged at the Netherbow Theatre, Edinburgh, on Thursday 26th and Saturday...

Scotland, the eldest son of Allan Ramsay, poet and author of The Gentle Shepherd. From the age of twenty he studied in London under the Swedish painter...

pastoral drama of The Gentle Shepherd in the following year. Later the eclogue was further renewed by being set in exotic lands, first by the Persian Eclogues...

dominate the Scottish stage. The existing repertoire of Scottish-themed plays included John Home's Douglas (1756) and Ramsay's The Gentle Shepherd (1725)...

with Italian composer and cellist Lorenzo Bocchi on the first Scottish opera the Gentle Shepherd. A musical culture developed around Edinburgh and a number...

The Battle of the Poets (satire on Alexander Pope) John Glanvill – Poems Alexander Pope – The Odyssey of Homer vols. i–iii Allan Ramsay – The Gentle Shepherd...

famous work Illustrations of the Gentle Shepherd. As a result he earned the title of "the Scottish Hogarth". By the end of the eighteenth century genre art...

The Central Asian Shepherd Dog, also known as the Alabay, Alabai (Turkmen: Alabaý, Kazakh: Төбет) and Turkmen Wolf-Hound (Туркменский волкодав), is a...

he illustrated The Gentle Shepherd by Allan Ramsay and importantly much of Robert Burns' work. His grave was originally unmarked. The headstone was erected...

about the American society with his second book Americans. In 2007, for The New York Times, Morris directed the short film The Gentle Shepherd about the pastor...

literature. He also led the trend for pastoral poetry and his pastoral opera The Gentle Shepherd was one of the most influential works of the era. Ramsay was...

sister-in-law Elizabeth Linley wrote some of the songs, and his wife Mary the music. His adaptation of The Gentle Shepherd by Allan Ramsay, first performed on...

Opera, the pastoral The Gentle Shepherd, with libretto by the poet Allan Ramsay. The most significant figure in Scottish classical music of the mid-eighteenth...

Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis and, also in 1948, he coined the phrase “Edinburgh Festival Fringe”. His adaptation of Allan Ramsay's The Gentle Shepherd was staged...

he showed a practical interest in the success of the Gentle Shepherd. This poem is dedicated, 25 June 1725, to the beautiful and much admired Susanna...

first part of The Seasons, poem in blank verse Allan Ramsay, The Gentle Shepherd: A Scots pastoral comedy Richard Savage, The Authors of the Town, published...

pocket. He particularly liked the songs of Allan Ramsay, and learnt The Gentle Shepherd by heart. He was apprenticed as a weaver when 13 years old, learning...

have been performed like this. Also held at the NLS are a small number of early editions of The Gentle Shepherd (1725) by Scottish poet Allan Ramsay which...

A. (2015). Scotland: A history from the earliest times. Edinburgh: Birlinn. Ramsay, A. (1808). The gentle shepherd; A pastoral comedy. Edinburgh: Abernathy...

dominate the Scottish stage. The existing repertoire of Scottish-themed plays included John Home's Douglas (1756) and Allan Ramsay's The Gentle Shepherd (1725)...

successor, and Edmund Spenser spoke warmly of him in The Shepheardes Calender as the "gentle shepherd Algrind". Grindal was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury...