“I was raised upon Ramsay, Fergusson, and Burns, and the old Scots, and…” — Charles Murray

“I was raised upon Ramsay, Fergusson, and Burns, and the old Scots, and all my life as a boy I was taught to look out for quaint phrases, out of the way expressions, and to study and delight in the old, original characters of the countryside.”

How a Doric childhood and the Scots canon trained his ear for speech and character · Recollection, 1912

Charles Murray

About Charles Murray

27 September 1864–12 April 1941

In the pantheon of Scottish literature, certain voices emerge from the countryside with such authenticity and power that they transcend their regional origins to speak to universal human experiences. Charles Murray (1864-1941) stands as one such figure—a poet whose verses, steeped in the dialect and landscape of…

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