Robert Burns

The poems include epistles, translations from Gaelic, and occasional poetry including a piece on the death of Burns . Apart from calling herself the rural muse, Grant also emphasises her Scottish identity: her characteristic...

Her spirited preface outspokenly addresses the handicaps confronting lower-class writers, especially women. She observes that her fellow labouring-class poets, Burns and Bloomfield , hard though they worked, did not have a woman's cares. She writes...

JL tells Burns she is somewhat in love with the Muses, and warmly celebrates his achievements in verse.

In this poem HC celebrates Burns 's native genius, gay, unique, and strong, and contrasts his independence and inborn merit with rank and riches.

The volume declared itself as juvenilia by noting at the outset that the poems had been composed between the ages of eight and thirteen, and appending to some of them the ages at which they...

Their move back to England was facilitated by a legacy of £5,000 from Anne's father. They bought the estate the previous year for £13,000 (including standing timber worth £3,280). AM sold the house, estate...