19th Century Scottish Literature

Jesus+Golgotha+Medici Alter+Mary Queen of Scots..

by Frank Dougan

My visit to the Holy Sepulchre Basilica, Jerusalem, Israel; February 2012

Jesus+Golgotha+Medici Alter+Mary Queen of Scots..

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Jerusalem

He sat on a donkey on palm strewn paths

Cries of delight arose from the mouths

The First born Son of God Christ Jesus.

To the temple he was led

There the money changers the people were bled

He cast them out of the House of His Father

The Sanhedrin were in a rage

Who is this Man to whom multitudes did gather?

He taught a new ideology of the age.

Secret plans they did form to bring Him down

To rob Him of His holy crown

Pilate and the Roman lords were sought

A price of 30 silver coins His friend was bought

At the Garden of Gethsemane from a kiss He was put in chains

Plans to kill Him for their ill-gotten gains

Pilate washed his hands of the affair he could find no crime

The high priest Caiaphas mind was distorted with grime

On His 6th day in Jerusalem they hung Him on a cross

He called to heaven that none of His sheep were lost

His promise to Peter He would return

The start of a new beginning had begun

Jesus is the Messiah the Chosen One.

He cried out loud before He went away

“Eli, Eli, Lama sabachthani”?

His dead corps was taken down and in a crypt buried

On the 3rd day from His death His word delivered

The Son of Man rose from the dead at the hand of Rome

In Jerusalem the spark of light was born Jesus was in His holy home.

By Frank J Dougan


Inside the Basilica of The Holy Sepulchre....is Golgotha (Calvery) where Jesus Christ was executed.....

The Holy Sepulchre Basilica also contains the tomb where Jesus lay...and rose from the dead!

At the foot of where The Cross stood stands the Medici Alter...

Mary Queen of Scots name is inside the Medici Alter!

The Medici Alter was commissioned a few months after Mary was martyrd!

The Alter is on the exact spot where Jesus lay after He was taken down from the cross and Held in His Mother Mary's arms!

Catherine de Medici was the mother Francis II of France....Mary was married to him!

The 11th Station - the Latin (Catholic) chapel.

The chapel's striking altar marks the 11th Station, the site at which Jesus was nailed to the Cross. A fine example of Renaissance art, the altar was made in Florence in 1588 and given to the church by Cardinal Medici a few decades later.

Look for the Medici name. Six panels of hammered silver (four in font and one on each side) depict scenes from the Passion.

— in Jerusalem, Israel.

CFP "Freedom, come all ye..." SOCIÉTÉ FRANÇAISE D’ETUDES ECOSSAISES and the ASSOCIATION FOR SCOTTISH LITERARY STUDIES.

by Ruben Jarazo-Alvarez

Call for Papers

Twentieth-Century Burns Scholar: J. DeLancey Ferguson.

by Corey E. Andrews

The Burns Chronicle (Winter 2011): 9-12.

This essay presents a critical appreciation of the work of J. DeLancey Ferguson, a noted Burns critic of the twentieth... more This essay presents a critical appreciation of the work of J. DeLancey Ferguson, a noted Burns critic of the twentieth century.

"Selfless": the shifting reputation of Alison Cunningham in biographies of Robert Louis Stevenson

by Lesley Graham

published in "Journal of Stevenson Studies" Volume 8, 2011 pp. 17-30.

The origins of Stevenson’s imagination and his distinctive voice have regularly been located in the influence of... more The origins of Stevenson’s imagination and his distinctive voice have regularly been located in the influence of Alison Cunningham during his formative years. She sang him Scottish ballads, read to him from the Bible and told him stories of Covenanters and ghosts; gave him an ear for Scots. It is hard to overestimate the impact that the nurse had on the writer’s formative years and indeed her influence on the development of her charge’s talent has certainly not gone unnoticed by his many biographers. This paper analyses the ways in which those biographers have assessed and represented the nurse’s influence on his inner life and work and suggests that these representations of the nurse can be seen as a crucible for the biographer’s view of Stevenson’s early development and preceding biographical accounts of that development.

"Burnsiana": The Collections of John Dawson Ross

by Corey E. Andrews

The Burns Chronicle (Summer 2011): 15-19.

This essay provides a brief account of the Burnsiana collections of John Dawson Ross, with particular attention to the... more This essay provides a brief account of the Burnsiana collections of John Dawson Ross, with particular attention to the popular cultural reception of Burns throughout the nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries.

Cardinal Beaton murdered in St. Andrew's, Scotland...for saving Mary Queen of Scots

by Frank Dougan

Cardinal Beaton was murdered for saving Mary Queen of Scots from the evil cluches of Henry VIII....

The Cardinal was murdered on the orders of Henry VIII....and Scottish traitors!

Frank J Dougan

Scottish Government, Alex Salmond-Rome-Mary Queen of Scots

by Frank Dougan

One of the most historic letters in Scottish History; August 2011...

Letter from The First Minister, Alex Salmond....regarding my trip to Rome on 4 October 2011....in my quest for the canonisation of Mary Queen of Scots.

The first Minister acknowledging the unity of friendship between the Roman Catholic Church and the various diverse religions in Scotland.

Mr. Salmond is the first leader of the Scottish Government and the English Government....to share the same sentiments that Mary Queen of Scots issued in 1561....when she had just returned to Scotland from France where she had been to Queen aged 19 years old.

She was asked the question by John Knox...'What religion will you persue'?

The Reformation had been enforced at this time and The Roman Catholic Faith had been destroyed in Scotland.

Mary calmly replied; ' I will keep my Holy Roman Catholic Faith...and everyone in Scotland can enjoy any faith they wish'!

450 years later The Right Honourable, Alex Salmond....Leader of The Scottish Government, The First Minister.....sent me this historic letter in his support for my quest for the canonisation as a Catholic martyr for Marie Stuart, Mary Queen of Scots....

Frank J Dougan

28 August 2011

Scottish Government, Alex Salmond-Rome-Mary Queen of Scots

by Frank Dougan

One of the most historic letters in Scottish History; August 2011...

Letter from The First Minister, Alex Salmond....regarding my trip to Rome on 4 October 2011....in my quest for the canonisation of Mary Queen of Scots.

The first Minister acknowledging the unity of friendship between the Roman Catholic Church and the various diverse religions in Scotland.

Mr. Salmond is the first leader of the Scottish Government and the English Government....to share the same sentiments that Mary Queen of Scots issued in 1561....when she had just returned to Scotland from France where she had been to Queen aged 19 years old.

She was asked the question by John Knox...'What religion will you persue'?

The Reformation had been enforced at this time and The Roman Catholic Faith had been destroyed in Scotland.

Mary calmly replied; ' I will keep my Holy Roman Catholic Faith...and everyone in Scotland can enjoy any faith they wish'!

450 years later The Right Honourable, Alex Salmond....Leader of The Scottish Government, The First Minister.....sent me this historic letter in his support for my quest for the canonisation as a Catholic martyr for Marie Stuart, Mary Queen of Scots....

Frank J Dougan

28 August 2011

The Displaced Naturalist: W. F. Campbell’s life of exile in Normandy

by Lesley Graham

This article examines the dynamics of rootedness and displacement; bourgeois authority and peasant ways of life;... more This article examines the dynamics of rootedness and displacement; bourgeois authority and peasant ways of life; signified and signifier, that are at work in Walter Frederick Campbell’s Life in Normandy (1863).
Walter Frederick Campbell (1798–1855) spent the last years of his life in Avranches, Normandy as an economic refugee. He had been Laird of Islay for thirty-two years and his financial ruin was in large part due to the agricultural and economic reforms he had implemented on the island. He was in many ways a benevolent proprietor and was described as “a man of kind heart and generous nature”. The reforms he introduced were farsighted, visible in the landscape still today, while he resisted the temptation to clear the overpopulated island.
Life in Normandy is a fictionalized account of Campbell’s experience in and around Avranches. His son, John Francis Campbell edited the two volumes and declared them to be primarily a philanthropic effort to teach Scottish peasants how to improve their practices: “It was suggested that a good cheap dinner would tempt a poor man from bad dear drink abroad, and that a poor Scotchman’s wife might be taught to do that which poor wives do elsewhere” (p. v). Hope and Cross, the protagonists of the narrative are clearly Campbell’s alter egos and are both passionately interested in nature, fishing and shooting. The action in Normandy takes place against the background of rumblings from the 1848 Revolution in Paris.
The account can be read as a long reflection on the dislocation of identity and the precarious meaning of home for the economic exile as well as for the Scottish and French peasant.

Venders, Purchasers, Admirers: Burnsian "Men of Action" from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century.

by Corey E. Andrews

Scottish Literary Review 2.1 (Spring/Summer 2010): 97-115.

The article discusses the promotion of poet Robert Burns as a national icon for Scotland after his death in 1796. It... more The article discusses the promotion of poet Robert Burns as a national icon for Scotland after his death in 1796. It cites Burns' popular appeal to Scots of all classes, with special attention to his cultural value in nineteenth-century Scotland. As the nineteenth-century glorification of Burns waned, interest in his political views (and potential value) grew among many Scottish groups. In particular, the significance of politics assumed a primary role in critical and popular cultural analyses of the poet. Particularly in the new climate of devolution following the opening of the Scottish Parliament in 1999, Burns represented different, often competing iconic meanings as various groups have sought to harness the power of his reputation to promote their interests. Nowhere has this process been more evident than in Burns’s relationship to politics; his endorsement or denunciation of radical politics in particular has continued to be a major bone of contention in discussions of his reputation. The article indicates the claim of ownership of Burns by the Scottish people continues to be a major feature of Scotland's relationship to Burns. It suggests that Burns' place in the literary field will be better understood and appreciated by recognizing the process by which he became a national icon.

The Genius of Scotland: Robert Burns and His Critics, 1796-1828.

by Corey E. Andrews

International Journal of Scottish Literature 6 (Spring/Summer 2010): 1-16.

This article focuses on the critical reception of Robert Burns from 1796 to 1828. It explores how the concept of... more This article focuses on the critical reception of Robert Burns from 1796 to 1828. It explores how the concept of genius influenced the perception of Burns as it was represented by critics and editors throughout the time period. Testimony of Burns’s ‘genius’ in the early nineteenth century was entirely in line with critical responses to the poet’s works beginning in 1786. This essay provides a survey of these responses, revealing a consistent pattern of critical reception of Burns and his body of work. The primary critical approach to Burns’s work involved the application of ‘genius’ theory; the continuum of critical responses demonstrates the fluid nature of this concept throughout the late eighteenth and mid nineteenth centuries. However, attention to the poet’s reception history also shows that while the concept underwent significant moderation as an aesthetic category, its association with moral failings was almost uniformly expressed by Burns’s critics. The ties between genius and biography, particularly in Burns’s case, became increasingly knotted as later commentators attempted to understand the poet’s life and works. This essay demonstrates that the process of myth-building and moralizing surrounding Burns continued unabated through the nineteenth century, particularly as critics assayed the poet’s nationalist iconicity while attempting to diminish the relevance of moral failings wrought by his ‘genius’. Burns’s fame still highlights this tension between his undeniable poetic gifts and his messy personal life, between his poetic aspirations and his complicated desires.