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