Ever Green

…in altered form) in his Ever Green (1724). In 1823 the Bannatyne Club was founded in Edinburgh for the purpose of promoting the study of Scottish history and literature.

…Poems (1706) and Allan Ramsay’s The Ever Green (1724), however, while deliberately invoking past achievements in Scots, could serve only to highlight the gradual Anglicization of the language. This process ultimately led to the development of such major Scottish poets as Robert Burns and Robert Fergusson, who wrote in both…