Includes the following chapters: Foreword / Introduction / Autobiography / Songs and poems / Stories / Bibliography / Discography / Epilogue.

″Matt McGinn (17 January 1928 – 5 January 1977) was a Scottish folk singer-songwriter, actor, author and poet. Born in Glasgow in the late 1920s. McGinn was a prolific songwriter and is recognised as an influential figure in the British folk music revival of the late fifties-early sixties.” (Wikipedia)

Keywords: Autobiography, Folk Music, folk songs, Poetry, Scottish Literature, Songs

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Includes for example the following chapters: Rederick Random (1748) / The Regicide (1749) / Peregrine Pickle (1751) / Smollett, Fielding and the paper war / Ferdinand Count Fathom (1753) / On Don Quixote (1755) / Smollett as Critic / Critics at War / Travels Through France and Italy (1766) / Smollett as Poet / Ode to Independence, etc.

Tobias George Smollett (19 March 1721 – 17 September 1771) was a Scottish poet and author. He was best known for his picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751), which influenced later novelists such as Charles Dickens. His novels were amended liberally by printers; a definitive edition of each of his works was edited by Dr. O. M. Brack, Jr. to correct variants. (Wikipedia)

Keywords: 18th Century Literature, Authors, Biography, Literary Criticism, Scottish Literature, Scottish Poet

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Cecil Philip Taylor (1929 – 1981), usually credited as C.P. Taylor, was a Scottish playwright. He wrote almost 80 plays during his 16 years as a professional playwright, including several for radio and television. He also made a number of documentary programmes for the BBC. His plays tended to draw on his Jewish background and his Socialist viewpoint, and to be written in dialect. (Wikipedia)

Keywords: Scottish Literature, Scottish Play

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