id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4038 Scottish literature - Wikipedia .html text/html 10989 1004 67 He laid the foundations of a reawakening of interest in older Scottish literature, publishing The Ever Green (1724), a collection that included many major poetic works of the Stewart period.[57] He led the trend for pastoral poetry, helping to develop the Habbie stanza, which would be later be used by Robert Burns as a poetic form.[58] His Tea-Table Miscellany (1724–37) contained poems old Scots folk material, his own poems in the folk style and "gentilizings" of Scots poems in the English neo-classical style.[59] His pastoral opera The Gentle Shepherd was one of the most influential works of the era.[54] He would also play a leading role in supporting drama in Scotland and the attempt to found a permanent theatre in the capital.[60] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4038.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4038.txt