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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.

'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.

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).