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

Her work garnered considerable response, including many poems of praise and compliment which were printed alongside her own in her later collection. These ranged from a verse proposal of marriage to a poetic tribute asserting...

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...

JK titled her new poetry collection Fiere: a Scots word for friend or companion, familiar to many from Burns 's Auld Lang Syne. She dedicated it to Ali Smith .

JK was one of twenty Scottish authors invited to contribute a monologue to a collaborative work entitled Dear Scotland, which was first performed by the Scottish National Theatre on 24 April 2014 as a...

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...

In her earliest extant letter, to Sarah Stoddart , Mary Lamb remarked (quite unfairly to herself): I am always a miserable letter writer, and I feel the want, in writing to a new friend of...

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...

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

For more than four years, from December 1788 to March 1793, Frances Anna Dunlop peppered her letters to Burns with comments about JL 's poetry, and sought to elicit criticism in return. When Burns first...

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...

She consistently takes a challenging stance in face of authority. Ironically (in view of Johnson's championing of women writers and Burns's snobbish attitude about herself) she uses Samuel Johnson as a symbol of the tyrant-critic...

Dunlop wrote, Methinks I hear you ask me with an air that made me feel as I had got a slap in the face, if you must read all the few lines I had pointed...

JL tried to initiate a correspondence with Robert Burns . At this date he was widely known by his nickname of the ploughman poet, and Little was frankly partial to him because of his class.

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.