Author: SKINNER (John):
Title: Amusements of Leisure Hours: or Poetical Pieces, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect: by the late Reverend John Skinner; at Longside, Aberedeenshire. To which is Prefixed, A Sketch of the Author's Life, with some Remarks on Scottish Poetry.
Description: Edinburgh: Printed by John Moir...; and sold by Stuart Cheyne..., 1809. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 12mo, 192 x 109 mms., pp. 144, original boards, uncut; spine defective and binding slightly worn and soiled, but a good copy, with floor plans for a house drawn in pencil by a contemporary hand on the rear end-papers. This posthumous collection by the song writer and ecclesiastical history John Skinner (1721 - 1807) attracted the admiration of Robert Burns, who had met the author well before his death. ODNB notes, "Robert Burns greatly admired his work and the two corresponded, Skinner supplying material for The Scots Musical Museum. Burns praised 'The Ewie wi' the Crookit Horn'—it has been suggested that this song refers to an illicit whisky still, but such references all appear to date from after 1859—and 'Tullochgorum' which he declared 'the best Scotch song ever Scotland saw' (Walker, 149)...."

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