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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

Patrick Scott

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

Patrick Scott

"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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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 …

Preface, Patrick G. Scott, Anthony Jarrells

Patrick Scott

No abstract provided.

Publications By G. Ross Roy, A Checklist, 1953-2011, Patrick G. Scott, Justin Mellette

Patrick Scott

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.

The Present State And Future(S) Of Scottish Literature, Anthony Jarrells, Patrick G. Scott

Patrick Scott

No abstract provided.

A Checklist Of James Hogg Scholarship Since 1960, Patrick G. Scott

Patrick Scott

Lists with brief annotations scholarship and criticism, including book reviews, published between 1960 and 1991. Originally distributed as South Carolina Working Papers in Scottish Bibliography, no. 2 (1992).

"The Poets Welcome": An Unrecorded Manuscript By Robert Burns, G. Ross Roy, Patrick G. Scott

Patrick Scott

Introduces, reproduces, and gives provenance for a previously-unrecorded autograph manuscript of Robert Burns's poem about the birth of his first-born child, and his mixed emotions of pride and some shame at her illegitimacy.

An Unrecorded Early Printing Of Robert Burns's Patriarch Letter, Patrick G. Scott

Patrick Scott

No abstract provided.

The Origin Of Species By Lord Neaves, Patrick G. Scott

Patrick Scott

Introductory essay on the Scottish lawyer and satirist Charles, Lord Neaves (1800-1876), with an edited text of his song from Blackwood's Magazine, May 1861, written in response to Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859). Originally issued London: The Quarto Press (Scottish Poetry Reprint Series, no. 6), 1986.