Robert Burns

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...

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...

MR calls Burns 's death an irreparable loss to the public, but concentrates more on his character than his writings, as needing more defence. Indeed, she suggests that Burns in conversation and argument was...

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...

This volume, like those BRP had already published, also covers a range of topics including the natural world, religious questions, Robert Burns , and places like Italy and Algiers. The poem entitled...

AG 's Introductory Verses, addressed to dead and living friends, begin: Go, artless records of a life obscure, and liken herself to the nightingale singing with a thorn in her breast. The poems...

But most poems in this volume are occasional, more or less public. MWD wrote about buildings: the fake-medieval Hockley Abbey near Birmingham and the genuine medieval Kenilworth Castle. She wrote about Scotland: ballads...

Her range of literary reference and comment is wide: as well as Richardson (whose Clarissa she unequivocally praises), it encompasses Blair , Sterne and Smollett as travel-writers, and Homer . Grant charges Samuel Johnson

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...

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).

It was very generally ascribed to Burns ; Carolina Nairne heard this ascription made in her presence, but she said she never answered.

Although he comments on the defects caused by a lack of classical education, and seems to rate her moral character more highly than her literary ability, Gilfillan pronounces Hamilton's work to be of uncommon excellence...