McGuirk, Carol. “Jacobite History to National Song: Robert Burns and Carolina Oliphant (Baroness Nairne)”. The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Vol.
47
, No. 2/3, pp. 253-87. 258
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Textual Production | Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne | Purdie and Smith worked at the behest of an all-female editorial committee McGuirk, Carol. “Jacobite History to National Song: Robert Burns and Carolina Oliphant (Baroness Nairne)”. The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Vol. 47 , No. 2/3, pp. 253-87. 258 |
Literary responses | Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne | Some nineteenth-century commentators made high claims for COLN
, ranking her close to Burns
himself (though Burns scholars have found it hard to forgive her unacted-on intention of producing a bowdlerised edition of Burns). She... |
Publishing | Catherine Carswell | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catherine Carswell | CC
's mother, Mary Anne (Lewis) Macfarlane
, was descended from a Scottish Enlightenment engineering pioneer who was also a friend of Robert Burns
. Pilditch, Jan. Catherine Carswell. A Biography. John Donald. 1 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Alison Cockburn | Burns
reflected the influence of Cockburn's I've seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling in one of his earliest compositions, I dream'd I lay where flowers were springing (first published in 1788). Fordonski, Krzysztof. “Robert Burns and Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski: A Translatological Investigation into the Mystery of ’I dream’d I lay’”. Scottish Literary Review, Vol. 5 , No. 1, pp. 13-29. 16, 26 |
Residence | Alison Cockburn | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Alison Cockburn | She wrote that some of my most steady friends thro' Life were my childhood companions, girls she had been at school with. Cockburn, Alison. Letters and Memoirs. Editor Craig-Brown, Thomas, David Douglas. 2 |
Literary responses | Eliza Cook | Under this misapprehension about their origin, readers singled out for praise the originality of the voice, energy of the style, and optimism of the tone, and likened the poems to those of Robert Burns
. Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Miles, Alfred H. The Victorian Poets: The Bio-Critical Introductions to the Victorian Poets from A. H. Miles’s The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. Editor Fredeman, William E., Garland. 271 |
Textual Features | Eliza Cook | Her poetic topics strongly reflect her reliance on well-tried promoters of sentiment: death, parting, gypsies, favourite horses and dogs, local feeling for Scotland or Ireland. The collection closes with a section of poems for... |
Reception | Isa Craig | IC
was awarded first prize of fifty guineas at the Burns Centenary Festival for her Ode on Burns
. Some sources give the year of this event wrongly. Parkes, Bessie Rayner. “Isa Craig and the Prize Poem on Burns”. English Woman’s Journal, Vol. 2 , No. 12, pp. 417-20. 417-18 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Isa Craig | As befits an entry in a contest of this kind, the poem rings with a celebratory and worshipful tone. It portrays Burns
as a peasant-king and poet-martyr whose verse speaks across borders to the entire... |
Textual Production | Helen Craik | HC
, in her late thirties, penned her first work which is known to survive: a poem written in Robert Burns
's copy of his Poems published at Edinburgh. Craciun, Adriana, and Kari E. Lokke, editors. “The New Cordays: Helen Craik and British Representations of Charlotte Corday, 1793-1800”. Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution, State University of New York Press, pp. 193-32. 229n56 |
Textual Production | Helen Craik | HC
wrote a ten-line poem in praise of Burns
, which is copied at the head of his Glenriddell Manuscript (below the title, before his dated preface). Burns, Robert. The Glenriddell Manuscripts of Robert Burns. Editor Donaldson, Desmond, E. P. Publishing. prelims |
Friends, Associates | Helen Craik | HC
's friends included the writers Maria Riddell
and Robert Burns
(as well as the former's brother-in-law Robert Riddell
). She corresponded with Burns, and praised his work in high terms. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Helen Craik | In this poem HC
celebrates Burns
's native genius, gay, unique, and strong, and contrasts his independence and inborn merit with rank and riches. Burns, Robert. The Glenriddell Manuscripts of Robert Burns. Editor Donaldson, Desmond, E. P. Publishing. prelims |
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