Robert Burns

IP presents herself jauntily in Account of the Author's Lifetime, the first poem in the volume. When I see merry company, / I sing a song with mirth and glee, / And sometimes I...

EJ 's poems are traditional in form, at times clumsy in their scansion, but often very effective in their use of rhythms and repetitions indebted both to Burns and to the folk song tradition. Indeed...

As a widow living in EdinburghAC was, according to Sarah Tytler and Jean L. Watson , a lively cultural influence, serving as a connecting-link between the Edinburgh of Allan Ramsay and Burns , and...

LL was the subject of two National Book League pamphlets, in 1978 and again in 1986. She was one of the first four twentieth-century Scottish poets (of a total of twelve) whose busts were placed...

Frances Anna Dunlop wrote to Robert Burns her earliest surviving comment on JL 's poetry: Dunlop clearly takes her seriously as a poet but confesses to disliking her blank verse.

IC was awarded first prize of fifty guineas at the Burns Centenary Festival for her Ode on Burns .

Particularly popular were three pieces she wrote in 1827: music for Burns 's And ye shall walk in silk attire, for the Scottish Highland song Welcome, welcome, and for the ballad Three Long Years.

Parts of CC 's critical biography The Life of Robert Burns (published this month and dedicated to her husband, Donald Carswell , and to D. H. Lawrence ) were serialised in the GlasgowDaily Record...

Burns returned the loan of MR 's commonplace-book, which he had read, he said, with much pleasure, just after the mysterious event which gave serious offence on both sides, and was to keep them...

MR 's perceptive and generous analysis and appreciation of Burns 's character and writings appeared anonymously in the Dumfries Weekly Journal only a fortnight after his death.

MA 's best-known novel, The Wooing O't, titled from a song by Robert Burns , appeared in instalments in Temple Bar; in book form it appeared on 11 September 1873 under her new...

She offered to dedicate the book to James Boswell , who suggested the child aristocrat instead. Few copies now contain the dedication.Burns helped to drum up subscribers, who numbered in the end...

In 1859, the centenary of Robert Burns 's birth, CN published in the Daily Scotsman, and independently as an 8-page pamphlet, verses on the poet.

HMW published her Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating the Slave Trade. (The bill was that of Sir William Dolben .) She sent a copies of her poem to Robert Burns (who...

MR was a talented amateur poet, diarist, letter-writer, and writer for children during the Romantic period. She published in 1788 a travel book about the Caribbean which is remarkable for its scientific observation, a critical...