Robert Burns

In 1793 Burns was soliciting from MR a song for the antiquarian anthologist George Thomson (presumably for A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs, which began publication this year). In summer 1795 she sent...

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...

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...

The play's title comes from well-known lines in Robert Burns 's poem To a Mouse about plans going haywire (as does John Steinbeck 's better-known novella Of Mice and Men, 1937).

CMS 's first novel, A New-England Tale; or, Sketches of New-England Character and Manners, was licensed: it appeared anonymously that year, with a title-page stanza from Robert Burns , dedicated to Maria Edgeworth .

A central figure in both Irish and English literary circles as well as in Irish politics, DS sought, through writing ballads, to recuperate the lost tradition of Irish balladry and folklore while simultaneously addressing the...

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

The arborist re-reads Oliver Twist alongside their partner's lectures and urges the partner to consider discussing the musical form of the novel (a request accommodated, as the academic threads it in alongside Auld Lang Syne...

In a critical preface HS reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford or Edward Bulwer Lytton ). The two groups of lovers and...

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...

LS returned to her Scottish roots in her historical-biographical play Three Goose Quills and a Knife, a piece that dramatises the adult life of Robert Burns from his twenties to his death at the...

ET 's family tree can be traced back to a James Tennant who was a friend of Robert Burns . Their modern wealth, however, came from the manufacture of bleach during the Victorian era.

She was also taught, perhaps between schools, by her father. By the age of eleven she had devoured the poetry of the British Classics from Chaucer to Beattie , as well as Burns ,...

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...

With Duncan Moray, Farmer (a three-volume novel published both at London and at Paisley in Scotland in early 1890),SV reverted to a Scottish setting...