A Whiff O' the Doric (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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O the poems of Mr. Dunbar no introduction is necessary in this part of the country. Stoneywood is a familiar nom de plume in several newspapers, and a previous volume of verse, A Cuff 0 Peat Reek, in no wise belied its title, for the edition vanished swiftly and easily, like a wisp of peat smoke. Copies are now unobtainable, and a like good fortune should attend the present collection. The Doric to-day, one is reluctantly compelled to fear, is in a condition far from robust. Vernacular writing in the strict and traditional dialect has tended to lose flexibility, and to present itself as something in our world but not of it, as an anachronism, as a curiosity; and its effect is not to revivify the Scots tongue. But verse in the easy current speech of the people, verse such as Mr. Dunbar writes happily, brightly, and with facility, finds at once its ready audience. It does not seek after words and phrases that have fallen into disuse, nor does it hanker after any flourish or ornament which is not in keeping with its own fresh and natural simplicity. To the country people the faithful pictures drawn in the poems which follow will be a welcome and striking reflection of a style of life that is fast disappearing, while the songs Mr. Dunbar's especial strength are frequently melodious with that quiet, almost plaintive melody which goes straight to the heart to cheer and refresh it. Principally because Stoneywood has looked at his world and knows his nation and because he shuns all the devious paths which lead away from the true, unaffected, human spirit of the Doric, these poems fulfil those high hopes which inspire so many writers as they murmur their valedictory, Go, little book. A. K.

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