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"Facts Are Chiels": Some New (?) Facts (?) About Robert Burns, Patrick Scott Jan 2019

"Facts Are Chiels": Some New (?) Facts (?) About Robert Burns, Patrick Scott

Patrick Scott

A talk on an invited topic sponsored by the Centre for Robert Burns Studies, University of Glasgow, and held at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway, on January 12, 2019. Among topics discussed are variant texts of the song "Yestreen I had a pint o wine" [The gowden Locks of Anna], and the date, background and manuscript sources for "Fragment: Esopus to Maria." The talk is not fully referenced, and only selected powerpoint slides are included, but fuller references will be provided if and when topics are written up for formal publication. A section of the talk about the long-lost …

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The Early History Of "Why Should We Idly Waste Our Prime" Nov 2018

The Early History Of "Why Should We Idly Waste Our Prime"

Patrick Scott

Discusses varying editorial opinions on the origin and authorship of the radical song, "Why Should We Idly Waste Our Prime," first included in a Burns edition in the 1830s, and undertakes textual comparison between a number of versions of the song printed in the mid-1790s and later, in London, Belfast, and Newcastle, to suggest the ways in which such songs might be adapted and modified to fit changing political circumstances. Current version an unedited prepublication text, not in final form or with pagination.

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The Kilmarnock Census: An Update, Patrick Scott, Allan Young Nov 2018

The Kilmarnock Census: An Update, Patrick Scott, Allan Young

Patrick Scott

Records and describes two further copies of Burns's first book, noted since publication of The Kilmarnock Burns: A Census (2017), one at Mount St Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and one in the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum and Library, Lexington, MA, bringing the current total of located extant copies to 86.

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Burns’S Reading Of Milton, Or How Big Was Burns’S Pocket?, Patrick Scott Nov 2018

Burns’S Reading Of Milton, Or How Big Was Burns’S Pocket?, Patrick Scott

Patrick Scott

Locates and describes a copy of Milton's Poetical Works with the ownership signature of Robert Burns, traces its provenance, and assesses the likelihood that it was the "pocket Milton" Burns told William Nicol in June 1787 that he had bought himself and carried with him "perpetually" to study "the dauntless magnanimity; the intrepid, unyielding independance; the desperate daring, and noble defiance of hardship, in that great Personage, Satan."

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Burns And The Edinburgh Gazetteer: A New Resource, Patrick Scott Nov 2018

Burns And The Edinburgh Gazetteer: A New Resource, Patrick Scott

Patrick Scott

A description of the recent digital edition of the Edinburgh Gazetteer (1792-1794), edited by Rhona Brown of the University of Glasgow, and a brief account of Burns's contact with its editor, William Johnston, the contributions to it by Burns and his neighbour Robert Riddell, government hostility to its publication, and the value of the digital version for Burnsians exploring the Scottish political climate of the 1790s.

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Robert Burns: A Documentary Volume, Patrick Scott Oct 2018

Robert Burns: A Documentary Volume, Patrick Scott

Patrick Scott

This volume in the long-established Dictionary of Literary Biography series collects primary source materials on Burns’s life, reading, and writing; contemporary descriptions of the places he lived; reviews and selected poetic responses; obituaries; and contextual material on such topics as Ayrshire agriculture, the duties of an excise officer, song-editing, and 1790’s radicalism.  Along with over 300 documents and extracts, the book includes 34 manuscript facsimiles, 45 sidebars on special topics, 10 maps, and over 100 supporting illustrations. The link here is to the preface only, describing the book in more detail; the book itself is available in print, as an …

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Selected Essays On Robert Burns, G. Ross Roy, Patrick Scott, Elizabeth A. Sudduth, Jo Durant Mar 2018

Selected Essays On Robert Burns, G. Ross Roy, Patrick Scott, Elizabeth A. Sudduth, Jo Durant

Patrick Scott

This book collects essays and talks about Robert Burns by the Burns scholar G. Ross Roy (1924-2013).  Along with introductions to such well-known Burns poems as "Tam o' Shanter" and "Auld Lang Syne," it includes essays discussing Burns's attitudes to the French Revolution, politics, and religion, his love-letters to Clarinda, The Merry Muses of Caledonia, poems written about Burns, and the editing of Burns's works. The volume opens with some autobiographical reflections about reading and working on Burns that Ross Roy recorded shortly before his death, and it concludes with an illustrated interview about his six decades as a …

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A Neglected Source For Burns Manuscripts? Some Old Guides For Autograph Collectors Nov 2017

A Neglected Source For Burns Manuscripts? Some Old Guides For Autograph Collectors

Patrick Scott

Discusses the continuing value of older, prephotographic, facsimiles of Burns's manuscripts, and illustrates a variety of examples of Burns's handwriting from Victorian guide for autograph collectors, and the evidence they can provide to Burns editors. .

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The Text Of Robert Burns's 'What Ails Ye Now': An Early Holograph Manuscript From The Roy Collection Nov 2017

The Text Of Robert Burns's 'What Ails Ye Now': An Early Holograph Manuscript From The Roy Collection

Patrick Scott

Discusses different 19th century claims about whether Burns wrote the poem "What ails ye now" (Kinsley 119B, also known as "Robert Burns's Answer," "A Letter to a Taylor," "Reply to a Trimming Epistle from a Tailor," and "Answer to a Trimming Epistle"), which was not published in Burn's lifetime, and for which no manuscript in Burns's hand is known; describes and illustrates, a contemporary or near-contemporary manuscript in another hand that has numerous variants from the early printed text; and examines the possible relationship between the two texts and their implications for the authorship debate.

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The Kilmarnock Burns And Book History, Patrick Scott Nov 2017

The Kilmarnock Burns And Book History, Patrick Scott

Patrick Scott

Based on the recent census of the surviving copies of Robert Burns's first book, Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Kilmarnock, 1786) (Young and Scott, 2017), discusses and illustrates the different forms in which it has been preserved, contrasting the original wrappers with later fine bindings, but also illustrating several contemporary bindings with which the original owners replaced the temporary wrappers, suggesting that these give a better indication of the social range of Burns's first readers.

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Dr John Mackenzie And The Irvine Miscellany Nov 2017

Dr John Mackenzie And The Irvine Miscellany

Patrick Scott

--following up a marginal annotation in the late G. Ross Roy's annotated copy of Egerer's Burns bibliography, reprints an 1815 letter by Burns's friend Dr John Mackenzie in the Irvine and County of Ayr Miscellany, which included the first publication of Burns's short poem inviting Mackenzie to a masonic dinner, and also of Burns's letter to Mackenzie, dated January 11, 1787.

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"Not In Egerer"? (Some Of) What We Still Don't Know About Burns Bibliography Mar 2017

"Not In Egerer"? (Some Of) What We Still Don't Know About Burns Bibliography

Patrick Scott

A talk written for the planning workshop on Burns bibliography at the National Library of Scotland, March 16, 2017, convened by Gerard Carruthers and Robert Betteridge, in association with the University of Glasgow's Centre for Robert Burns Studies and the AHRC-funded project Editing Burns for the 21st Century.

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"Fragments That Remain: 'A Verse By Burns,' The Tarbolton Bachelors' Club, And David Sillar's Manuscript Rules", Patrick G. Scott Nov 2016

"Fragments That Remain: 'A Verse By Burns,' The Tarbolton Bachelors' Club, And David Sillar's Manuscript Rules", Patrick G. Scott

Patrick Scott

Identifies two surviving fragments of David Sillar's manuscript rules for the Tarbolton Bachelors' Club, transcribes the two fragments of verse associated with them (one in Robert Burns's handwriting), and examines the evidence for Burns's authorship of one of these verse fragments.

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A Burns Puzzle Solved: Davidson Cook And The 'English' Original For 'It Is Na, Jean, Thy Bonie Face' (Smm 333), Patrick G. Scott Jan 2016

A Burns Puzzle Solved: Davidson Cook And The 'English' Original For 'It Is Na, Jean, Thy Bonie Face' (Smm 333), Patrick G. Scott

Patrick Scott

Identifies Burns's "English" source that he put into "Scots dress'"for the song 'It is na, Jean, thy bonie face." first published in James Johnson's Scots Musical Museum, IV (1792); reviews the evidence that Burns had read the source identified, in Juvenile Poems (1789), by John Armstrong (1771-1797), then a student at Edinburgh University; and explores why Davidson Cook's previous record of this identification, in 1918, has been lost to subsequent Burns scholarship. [in the original article, which was linked at http://burnsc21.glasgow.ac.uk/guest-blog-by-professor-patrick-scott-a-burns-puzzle-solved-davidson-cook-and-the-english-original-for-it-is-na-jean-thy-bonie-face-smm-333/, a brief afterword by Murray Pittock put the (re)discovery in the context of other current work on Burns …

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Looking Again At James Currie’S Inventory: The Other Side Of Robert Burns’S Correspondence, Patrick Scott, Jo Durant Dec 2014

Looking Again At James Currie’S Inventory: The Other Side Of Robert Burns’S Correspondence, Patrick Scott, Jo Durant

Patrick Scott

This article provides an overview of one of the major manuscript sources on Burns’s life, the inventory of letters addressed to Robert Burns made for his first editor Dr. James Currie, and reports a number of discoveries made about inventory entries during editorial work for a preliminary edition of the letters to Burns. Based on an illustrated talk recorded for a recent Project Symposium in late October at the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Robert Burns Studies.

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"Robert Burns, Open Access, And The Digital Studies In Scottish Literature", Patrick G. Scott Mar 2014

"Robert Burns, Open Access, And The Digital Studies In Scottish Literature", Patrick G. Scott

Patrick Scott

Describes the representation of the Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759-1796) over the past fifty years in the journal Studies in Scottish Literature and analyzes reports on usage of the journal's recent free searchable digital version from the University of South Carolina institutional repository Scholar Commons to chart the changing international audience for Scottish literary studies and changes in how researchers discover journal articles. Concludes with brief comments on the editors' decision to make the journal open access, especially in light of recent policy proposals from United Kingdom research funding bodies.

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'Mother, Wife, And Queen': Tennyson's (Varying) Dedication To Queen Victoria, Patrick G. Scott Feb 2014

'Mother, Wife, And Queen': Tennyson's (Varying) Dedication To Queen Victoria, Patrick G. Scott

Patrick Scott

Discusses the literary precedents, manuscripts, composition, and biographical context for Tennyson's poem "To the Queen," first published in Match 1851, and argues that Tennyson's attitudes toward Queen Victoria and to his role as Poet Laureate were more nuanced and more conflicted than most critics have recognized.

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Hamish Henderson: The Desert War, Italy, And Scottish Poetry, Patrick G. Scott Feb 2014

Hamish Henderson: The Desert War, Italy, And Scottish Poetry, Patrick G. Scott

Patrick Scott

Catalogue of library exhibition about the Scottish poet and folk musicologist Hamish Henderson (1919-2002), covering Henderson's career during World War II, with the 51st Highland Division in the Western Desert and with the Italian resistance, and after the war as prize-winning poet, as political theorist and translator of Gramsci, as a champion and collector of Scottish traditional song, and as folk performer and composer. Includes information on the Henderson manuscripts in the G. Ross Roy Collection at the University of South Carolina, including drafts of his poem Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica (1948).

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Robert Burns, James Johnson, And The Manuscript Of "The German Lairdie", Patrick G. Scott Sep 2013

Robert Burns, James Johnson, And The Manuscript Of "The German Lairdie", Patrick G. Scott

Patrick Scott

Reports, illustrates, and assesses a fragment of manuscript music now in the G. Ross Roy Collection at the University of South Carolina, for Burns's song "The German Lairdie," headed in Burns's hand, and possibly with the music in his hand also. A note with the fragment, which was exhibited as Burns's autograph in 1896, states that it had been sent by Burns to the Edinburgh editor and publisher James Johnson, for inclusion in his Scots Musical Museum.

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Prelims, Preface To Ssl 39: G. Ross Roy And Susan Manning, Patrick G. Scott, Anthony Jarrells Sep 2013

Prelims, Preface To Ssl 39: G. Ross Roy And Susan Manning, Patrick G. Scott, Anthony Jarrells

Patrick Scott

Preface includes information on usage of the digital version of Studies in Scottish Literature in its first year, together with short tributes to two board members who recently died, the journal's founder G. Ross Roy, and Prof. Susan Manning of the University of Edinburgh.

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Divergent Authenticities: Editing Scottish Literary Texts: Introduction: How Editorial Theories Have Changed, Patrick G. Scott Sep 2013

Divergent Authenticities: Editing Scottish Literary Texts: Introduction: How Editorial Theories Have Changed, Patrick G. Scott

Patrick Scott

Reviews changing approaches to the editing of Scottish literary texts, from the dominance of the Greg-Bowers theory of copytext to the emergence of the Social Text theory associated with Mackenzie and McGann; illustrates the developments from a variety of major Scottish authors and scholarly editions (specifically Thomas Carlyle and Walter Scott); and concludes by discussing the critical implications of differing approaches to editing two frequently-taught Scottish works, Robert Burns's "Tam o' Shanter" and Hugh MacDiarmid's A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle.

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John Fowles, James Anthony Froude, And The Sociology Of Innovation And Traditionalism In The British Novel, Patrick G. Scott Aug 2013

John Fowles, James Anthony Froude, And The Sociology Of Innovation And Traditionalism In The British Novel, Patrick G. Scott

Patrick Scott

Discusses the early career and later development of the twentieth-century British novelist John Fowles, and compares the fictional technique of his novel The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) with that of the Victorian writer James Anthony Froude's novella The Lieutenant's Daughter (1847). First presented at the Modern Language Association of America, annual convention, New York, December 1979.

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Victorian Writers, Remembered & Forgotten, Patrick G. Scott Aug 2013

Victorian Writers, Remembered & Forgotten, Patrick G. Scott

Patrick Scott

Based on a library exhibition at the University of South Carolina, summarizes the career and writings of many well-known British Victorian novelists, poets and non-fiction writers (including Dickens, Thackeray, Carlyle, Darwin, Tennyson, E.B. and Robert Browning, the Brontes, George Eliot, R.L.Stevenson), in contrast with the achievements of lesser-known writers also represented in the library's special collections (including G. W. M. Reynolds, Elizabeth Sewell, William North, Rhoda Broughton, and George Douglas Brown). Originally developed as an exhibition for the 2008 meeting of the Victorians Institute.

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Notes On Contributors And On The W. Ormiston Roy Memorial Fellowship, Patrick G. Scott Aug 2013

Notes On Contributors And On The W. Ormiston Roy Memorial Fellowship, Patrick G. Scott

Patrick Scott

Robert Burns & Friends

essays by W. Ormiston Roy Fellows

presented to G. Ross Roy

edited by Patrick Scott and Kenneth Simpson

This volume of essays about the Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759-1796) pays tribute to the distinguished Burns scholar G. Ross Roy. Subjects covered include writers who influenced Burns; aspects of the writing of Burns and that of his friends and contemporaries; and Burns's influence on later writers. The volume also includes essays on Ross Roy's own accomplishments and on the Burns collection he built (now at the University of South Carolina), together with a checklist of his published …

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Gettysburg: An Exhibit For The First-Year Reading Experience, Patrick G. Scott Aug 2013

Gettysburg: An Exhibit For The First-Year Reading Experience, Patrick G. Scott

Patrick Scott

Based on an exhibition for University of South Carolina students reading Michael Shaara's bestselling book The Killer Angels, this catalogue recounts the story of the battle of Gettysburg day by day, with an opening section introducing the major participants and a final section dealing with the commemoration of the battle and its treatment in later American literature. All the items in the exhibition are drawn from the Francis A. Lord Civil War Collection and the Robert S. Chamberlain Military History Collection, both in Rare Books & Special Collections, University of South Carolina Libraries.

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The Premature Belatedness Of Victorianism's Boyhood: Clough And The Rugby Magazine, 1835-1837, Patrick G. Scott Aug 2013

The Premature Belatedness Of Victorianism's Boyhood: Clough And The Rugby Magazine, 1835-1837, Patrick G. Scott

Patrick Scott

Explores the attitudes and pressures on early Victorian teenagers through an examination of contributions by the poet Arthur Hugh Clough and other students at Rugby School to a short-lived quarterly, the Rugby Magazine (1835-1837). Originally presented at the Victorians Institute conference, Richmond, VA, 1999.

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The James Willard Oliver Collection Of David Hume & Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, Patrick G. Scott Aug 2013

The James Willard Oliver Collection Of David Hume & Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, Patrick G. Scott

Patrick Scott

Describes a collection of first and other editions of the Scottish philosopher David Hume, recently donated to the University of South Carolina by Prof. James Willard Oliver, and uses older library records from the library of South Carolina College (founded in 1801) to chart the changing reputation and influence of Hume's philosophical works as compared to his essays and historical writings. First presented at the SE American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, in Columbia, SC, February 3003.

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Comparative Anatomies: Darwin, Eliot, Stevenson And The Lamarckian Legacy Of 1820s Edinburgh, Patrick G. Scott Aug 2013

Comparative Anatomies: Darwin, Eliot, Stevenson And The Lamarckian Legacy Of 1820s Edinburgh, Patrick G. Scott

Patrick Scott

Explores the ways in which selected Victorian writers critiqued, repressed, or caricatured the underground influence of the earlier French biological theorist Lamarck. Works discussed include George Eliot's Middlemarch and Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. First presented at the Sixth International Scott Conference, Eugene, Oregon, 1999.

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Preface, Patrick G. Scott, Anthony Jarrells Aug 2013

Preface, Patrick G. Scott, Anthony Jarrells

Patrick Scott

No abstract provided.

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Arthur Hugh Clough And Florence Nightingale: A Relationship Reexamined, Patrick G. Scott Aug 2013

Arthur Hugh Clough And Florence Nightingale: A Relationship Reexamined, Patrick G. Scott

Patrick Scott

Discusses the relationship between the Victorian poet Arthur Hugh Clough and his cousin-by-marriage the nursing reformer Florence Nightingale, using manuscript and other evidence to counter the varicature offered by Lytton Strachey in his influential book Eminent Victorians.

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