Robert Anderson (poet)
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Robert Anderson, was an English labouring class poet from Carlisle. He was best known for his ballad-style poems in Cumbrian dialect.
A silhouette of the poet from the 1820s (Tullie House Museum, Carlisle)
A woodcut of a cockfight outside a country inn engraved attributed to Thomas Bewick in 1805
Lallans
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Lallans, means the Scots language, or certain varieties of it.
Robert Anderson (poet)
…songs "written in a mock pastoral Scottish style" that he had encountered while in London. But this did not prevent him from writing in the same debased Lallans that he deprecated. Indeed, beside the lyrics of his in standard English set by James Hook, several others were in Anderson's derivative Scots, including…
Commemorative plaque in Lallans, Edinburgh