Robert 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...

The chapter headings quote a range of canonical or contemporary writers, including Shakespeare , Milton , Pope , Thomson , Goldsmith , William Mason , John Langhorne , Burns , Erasmus Darwin , Edward Young

Original poems (sonnets, songs, ballads, occasional pieces) as well as more translations (from Latin, represented by Horace , as well as from Italian) occupy the latter part of volume two. Many of the occasional poems...

The title-page quotes Burns and Scott . The preface remarks that books based on female impressions of national manners and moral character have succeeded in the past. The book is again made up...

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).Walter Scott

Its engaging heroine, Maggie Grey, combines the names of both lovers in Burns 's well-known song, but unlike Burns's Maggie she marries up, her eventual husband, Geoffrey Trafford, being the cousin of an earl. She...

EH seeks to raise the canonical status of the novel in this work not only by serious politico-philosophical content, but also by chapter-heading quotations from the classics (from Horace , Shakespeare , and Milton to...

This well-characterized and engaging novel puts forward the idea that passion is necessary although dangerous if uncontrolled: an idea anticipating Veitch's later sensation novel The Dean's Daughter. The story is set at a town...

JH composed from a young age; between the ages of seventeen and nineteen she produced about twenty pieces of religious poetry. She was strongly influenced by her reading of the Bible, by the...

In this year both Susanna Blamire (visiting there) and Robert Burns were writing in Perthshire. This, too, was the year that Carolina Oliphant's father died, and it has been suggested that grief and a...

As a friend rather than a lover, Burns was crucially helpful to MR . He first put her in touch with the printer, intellectual, and naturalist William Smellie , who published her work and became...

The Christmas rupture with Burns seems to have taken effect only gradually. After the key event Burns sent MR a copy of Werther (Goethe 's novel, probably in English translation) as well as returning...

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.

During the last months of Burns 's life, Riddell was again sending him her verses to read. He dined at her house, though too weak to walk, on 5 July 1796, and asked her sardonically...

That year HMW was introduced by Dr John Moore to Burns , with whom she then corresponded. She met Samuel Rogers (in November 1787), Hester Lynch Piozzi , and Sir Joshua Reynolds . The year...