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"The Poor Man's Friend In Need": Baird, Burns And Miller, David Robb
"The Poor Man's Friend In Need": Baird, Burns And Miller, David Robb
Studies in Scottish Literature
Surveys the career of the Rev. George Baird (1761-1840), principal of the University of Edinburgh and minister of Edinburgh's High Kirk, assessing Baird's edition of the poems of Michael Bruce (1796), tracing his early encounter with the Scottish poet Robert Burns and his later connection with the self-educated Scottish writer and geologist Hugh Miller, and describing his efforts to relieve destitution and improve education in the west and north of Scotland and his extensive travels on behalf of the General Assembly's Highlands and Islands Committee.
Publications By G. Ross Roy, A Checklist, 1953-2011, Patrick G. Scott, Justin Mellette
Publications By G. Ross Roy, A Checklist, 1953-2011, Patrick G. Scott, Justin Mellette
Studies in Scottish Literature
This checklist details books and other separate publications, articles, and reviews, published through December 2011 by the Burns scholar G. Ross Roy (1924-2013), longtime professor of English at the University of South Carolina. The list encompasses his work not only on Burns and Scottish poetry, but in Canadian literature, comparative literature, and book history.
G. Ross Roy: A Tribute, Kenneth G. Simpson
G. Ross Roy: A Tribute, Kenneth G. Simpson
Studies in Scottish Literature
Tribute to G. Ross Roy (1924-2013), as scholar of Robert Burns, editor of the Burns letters, and founder of the scholarly journal .Studies in Scottish Literature.
"Tongues Turned Inside Out": The Reception Of "Tam O' Shanter", Gerard Carruthers
"Tongues Turned Inside Out": The Reception Of "Tam O' Shanter", Gerard Carruthers
Studies in Scottish Literature
Examines the dramatic poem "Tam o' Shanter", by Robert Burns, with especial focus on the significance of the lines that Alexander Fraser Tytler had criticized when Burns sent him a proof copy of the poem, and that Burns subsequently omitted.
"Epistolary Performances": Burns And The Arts Of The Letter, Kenneth G. Simpson
"Epistolary Performances": Burns And The Arts Of The Letter, Kenneth G. Simpson
Studies in Scottish Literature
The letters written by the Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759-17960 show a self-conscious writer, who relished the craft of letter-writing and the role-playing that it allowed him. Examines letters that Burns wrote to Dr. John Moore, Margaret Chalmers, and others, and suggests a kinship between Burns as letter-writer and the letters and novels of Laurence Sterne.
Burns's Two Memorials To Fergusson, Carol M. Mcguirk
Burns's Two Memorials To Fergusson, Carol M. Mcguirk
Studies in Scottish Literature
Discusses the relation between the Scottish poet Robert Burns and one of his most important precursors Robert Fergusson, describing Burns's efforts to raise a memorial on Fergusson's grave and the ways in which Burns's first book, Poems chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Kilmarnock, 1786) was also a memorial to Fergusson.
Back To Burns, Fred Freeman
Back To Burns, Fred Freeman
Studies in Scottish Literature
Argues that the published settings of the songs written and collected by the Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759-1796), especially the settings in George Thomson's series A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs, conceal Burns's original intentions, and traces this to anti-Scottish critical prejudice that had driven the genuine folk tradition underground.
On Editing The Merry Muses, Valentina Bold
On Editing The Merry Muses, Valentina Bold
Studies in Scottish Literature
Discusses the sources and issues in reediting the late 18th century Scottish song collection, The Merry Muses of Caledonia (1799), in connection the 50th anniversary of the first modern scholarly edition, edited by Sydney Goodsir Smith, James Barke, and J. Delancey Ferguson in 1959.
Robert Burns, The Crochallan Fencibles, And The Original Printer Of The Merry Muses Of Caledonia, Stephen Brown
Robert Burns, The Crochallan Fencibles, And The Original Printer Of The Merry Muses Of Caledonia, Stephen Brown
Studies in Scottish Literature
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