Robert Burns

Among her favourite writers were Alfred Tennyson , Sir Walter Scott , George Eliot (whose The Mill on the Floss made a deep impression on her), and Charles Kingsley , whose Two Years Ago...

In her letter to Burns, Mrs Dunlop emphasises JL 's intellect rather than her appearance: Her outside promises nothing; her mind only bursts forth on paper. She further encouraged JL to correspond with Burns...

In her preface to the poem she outlines theories of poetry, taking much the same approach towards it that she had towards fiction: that verse, like prose, would benefit from attention to simple, everyday life...

In this month Burns wrote to her about correcting and revising her manuscript.

The dream poems combine the qualities of horror and of nursery-rhyme. The second one begins, Mr Oddy / Met a body / Hanging from a tree, which dreadfully alters the tone of Robert Burns

Chapters are headed with a lavish array of quotations. Among the better-known authors are Ariosto (in the original), Shakespeare , Drayton , Milton , Pope (on the title-page), Young , Gray , Collins , Johnson

The novel combines domestic humour and social satire. The courtship of Eglantine Fortescue and the young officer Augustus Fitzroy is almost overshadowed by the broad-brush picture of their families and friends. Eglantine incurs disapproval first...

Robert Burns helped her to achieve publication, writing to the Edinburgh printer and man of letters William Smellie on 22 January 1792 that her poems were always correct and sometimes elegant, very much beyond the...

FB began writing at the age of seven, when, inspired by her great and strange love of poetry, she attempted to re-write The Lord's Prayer in verse. She continued to write throughout her childhood...

ESG quotes a stanza from Burns 's A Prayer in the Prospect of Death on her title-page, and says she can offer her reader no ghosts or artificial terrors. She takes up...

The Recitations (poems in which the speaking voice is crucial, most of them sharply Scots-vernacular comments on sexual or gender relations) include the title piece, Bagpipe Muzak, Glasgow 1990. This laments (in a nice...

The play was written for the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , who first performed it in Edinburgh on 24 January 1986. Lochhead surprised herself with her use of the Scots language: my grandmother's ....

The preface expresses admiration for both Burns and George Dyer . ABC stresses her lack of education (which, critic Richard C. Sha argues, associates herself with lower-class writers like William Blake and Henry Kirke White

The book is headed with romantic lines from Thomas Davies [sic] about successive migrants and visitors to Ireland, from the brown Phoenician to the iron Lords of Normandy. The next epigraph comes from Burns

The title-page of volume one of Graham Hamilton quotes Burns ; the second quotes Swift denouncing scandal. Though quieter, this novel again displays splendid satirical energy. It contains only one lyric (written by Nathan for...