By Murray Shoolbraid, Ed Cray
In 1832 the Scottish ballad collector Peter Buchan of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, offered an anthology of risqué‚ and convivial songs and ballads to a Highland laird. whilst Professor Francis James baby of Harvard used to be getting ready his magisterial version of The English and Scottish well known Ballads, he made inquiries approximately it, however it used to be now not made to be had in time to be thought of for his paintings. On his dying it used to be awarded to the kid Memorial Library at Harvard. as a result of its unseemly fabrics, the manuscript has languished there ever on the grounds that, unprinted, although now known and back, and some goods have every now and then made an appearance.
The manuscript has now been transcribed with complete annotation and with an advent at the compiler, his occasions, and the Scottish bawdy culture. It includes the texts (without tunes) of seventy-six bawdy songs and ballads, in addition to a long-lost scatological poem attributed to the Edinburgh author James "Balloon" Tytler. Appendices provide information of Buchan's released collections of ballads. also, there's a checklist of story varieties and motifs, a word list of Scots and archaic phrases, a bibliography, and an index. The High-Kilted Muse brings to mild a long-suppressed quantity and fills in an excellent hole in released bawdy songs and ballads.
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4– 5 He clippit her claes, an’ pared her taes. 3. This and other of Buchan’s books apparently had short press runs, and today command handsome prices. Terry Stillman of Stillman Books in Vancouver, BC, reported that even a worn copy of the Historical Account of 1820 would be hard to come by. He says: ‘Even if there were as many as a couple of thousand published, I would imagine there are only a handful around today [. ] [In a search,] the only ones that showed up were 3 copies in the Special Collections of the Library of Glasgow’.
Peter buchan: introduction 13 T. F. Henderson makes no concessions whatever. In a list of ballad collections he mentions ‘Peter Buchan’s Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland, 1828 (much of it a mere farrago of unauthentic doggerel)’, with a footnote: Many of the numbers were supplied by James Rankine [sic], a blind beggar, whom Buchan in his MS states he kept, ‘at great expense’, travelling in Scotland collecting ballads for him. Professor Child remarks that many of Buchan’s ballads bear this minstrel’s ‘mint mark’, and places ‘no confidence’ in any of his readings.
The long line of ‘improvers’ begins with Ramsay in the 1720s and includes Bishop Percy, Pinkerton, Burns, Scott, Cunningham, and James Hogg, whose hand in many of his Jacobite Relics is unknowable; some are undoubtedly from his own pen. It was after all the age of Chatterton and Macpherson, of different scholarly standards and (to cap it all) an overriding ‘taste’ which decreed what could or could not be published. The timidity of Ramsay grew over a century to rabid anxiety, at least on the part of establishment authors and editors.