David Herd

Standard Name: Herd, David

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Anthologization Lady Anne Barnard
The words were printed anonymously in the second edition of Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, edited by David Herd , 1776. LAB did not admit her authorship until 1823, when she confided her secret...
Textual Production Anna Gordon
Anna herself corresponded with Alexander Fraser Tytler about her repertoire in 1800, and was herself the first to put some of her ballads in writing. He replied that he found them consummately beautiful, and...

Timeline

April 2005: The poet Fiona Sampson took up the position...

Writing climate item

April 2005

The poet Fiona Sampson took up the position of editor of Poetry Review (published by the Poetry Society )—the first woman to hold this post since Muriel Spark more than forty years before.
“All change at Poetry ReviewMslexia, No. 25, Apr. 2005, p. 11.
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Texts

Barnard, Lady Anne. “Auld Robin Gray”. Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, edited by David Herd, 2nd ed., Vol.
2
, J. Dickson and C. Elliot, 1776, pp. 196-7.