Allan Cunninghamアラン・カニンガム / 1784-1842
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詩人 A〜C 1740年〜1799年スコットランドの詩人。1784年12月、ダムフリースシア (Dumfriesshire) のダルスウィントン (Dalswinton) 教区に生まれる。スコットランドの伝承バラッドや歌を愛し、数多くの模倣作を残している。Robert Hartley Cromek の Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song (1810) には、本物と称された多くの彼の模倣バラッドが収められている。彼の詩やバラッド詩は当時たいへん人気があった。 Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry (1822)、The Songs of Scotland (1825)、彼自らが註を加えた The Works of Robert Burns (1834) などの出版を通じて、当時の文学界の著名人たち、Sir Walter Scott、James Hogg、John Wilson などとの交友を築き、彼自身も多大な名声を勝ち得たという。 (Y. Y.)
Born in the parish of Dalswinton, Dumfriesshire, December 1784. He was a great lover of old Scottish ballads and songs, and he wrote a number of imitations of traditional Scottish ballads, many of which were disguised and published in Robert Hartley Cromek’s Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song (1810). In his lifetime, many of his poems and ballads were very popular. His publications of Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry (1822), The Songs of Scotland (1825), and an edition of The Works of Robert Burns, with notes and a life (1834) brought him fame and friendship with his contemporary Scottish literary celebrities such as Sir Walter Scott, James Hogg, and John Wilson. (Y. Y.)
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＊ The Songs of Scotland, Ancient and Modern. With an Introduction and Notes by Allan Cunningham. Vol. 2. London, 1825.
＊ Poems and Songs. With an Introduction, Glossary, and Notes by Peter Cunningham. London, 1847.