> >Except (and dave will love this) it virtually seems as if there was a
> >concerted effort to blast Street Speech out of poetry between about 1720
> >and 1900.
>
> How does this compute for Scotland? I'm thinking of Burns, natch, but also
> the material in Radical Renfrew.
>
> Mark
Burns was respectable.
In Radical Renfrew, Tom was chronicling stuff published in the Comments
columns of newspapers.
The stuff I'm thinking of was barrio material before the term was noticed.
Mostly English, sad to say.
Mind you, both Sinfu' Davy and Thomas Mount managed to cause a
fairly consderable amount of trouble before they finally topped them.
As for Jack Sheppard -- David Kirkwood would have loved his boots!
R.
(I had this discussion wiith CB recently. The Scots didn't really go a
bundle on highwaymen -- Haggart, Burke and Hare, and Deacon Brodie.
Different scene.)
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