the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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R.H. Cromek : Reliques of Robert Burns

'[letter to Miss J-B-] I have just been looking over the fifth volume of poor Burns. it contains much that he would have been sorry to imagine before the public eye; but his letter to Mr Erskine, and some others, are invaluable'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

R.H. Cromek : Remains Of Nithsdale And Galloway Song

'I was astonished at the luxuriousness of his [Allan Cunningham's] fancy. it was boundless; but it was the luxury of a rich garden overrun with rampant weeds. he was likewise then a great mannerist in expression, and no man could mistake his verses for those of any other man. I remember seeing some imitations of Ossian by him, which I thought exceedingly good; and it struck me that that style of composition was peculiarly fitted for his vast and fervent imagination. When Cromek's "Nithsdale and Galloway Relics" came to my hand, I at once discerned the strains of my friend, and I cannot describe with what sensations of delight I first heard Mr Morrison read the "Mermaid of Galloway", while at every verse I kept naming the author'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

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