The Modern Scottish Minstrel is a celebrated mid-Victorian anthology series gathering the best songs and lyric poems of Scotland from the preceding fifty years. Volume 5 continues the survey, presenting verse in both Scots dialect and English from the rich tradition of Scottish song — pastoral, amorous, patriotic, and elegiac.
An invaluable record of the nineteenth-century Scottish lyric tradition, this volume complements Burns and the older ballad collections. The free EPUB is cleanly formatted with each song’s verse and stanza structure preserved.