Allan Ramsay

Allan Ramsay (1686-1758) was a Scottish poet, born in Crawford, Lanarkshire. He was bred a wig-maker. He took to bookselling, and published his own poems, "The Gentle Shepherd," a pastoral, among the number, a piece which describes and depicts manners very charmingly.

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