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We dinna ken muckle aboot Robert Forbes fa wis ain o the maist influential o the echteenth cintury Doric scrievers. As Derrick McClure his notet:
Forbes's maisterpiece is an owersettin o Ovid 'Ajax: his speech tae the Grecian Knabbs' (first taen oot in 1742) an fit is notet as being 'attempted in Broad Buchan'. McClure spiks aboot foo important Forbes, alang we Skinner and Ross, wis for the development o Doric scrievin:
Doric literature arose in the context of the eighteenth-century Vernacular Revival, of which its emergence is an integral part; and a remarkable feature of its development is that it sprang fully-armed, so to speak, into being: there is virtually no evidence of local poets experimenting with the dialect until three highly individual, mutually unlike and quantitatively very substantial poems, deliberately and unmistakeably in a dialect which contrasts with that being used contemporaneously by writers from further south, appeared in quick succession: John Skinner’s The Christmass Bawing of Monimusk in 1739, Robert Forbes’ Ajax his Speech to the Grecian Knabbs in 1742 and Alexander Ross’s Helenore, or The Fortunate Shepherdess presumably in the 1750s. |
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Forbes scrievt it ‘purely for his own amusement’ fan ‘confined with the jaundice’ |
CLICK ABLO TAE READ THE HAIL BUIK
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READ ABOOT FORBES IN THE 'BARDS OF BON ACCORD'
READ FIT DERRICK MCCLURE SAYS
OR DOONLOAD HIS HAIL CHAPTER
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