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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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, 1 Mar. 2013– 2025, pp. 13-29. 16, 26 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sophie Veitch | 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Liz Lochhead | The Recitations (poems in which the speaking voice is crucial, most of them sharply Scots-vernacular comments on sexual or gender relations) include the title piece, Bagpipe Muzak, Glasgow 1990. This laments (in a nice... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mrs Alexander | 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 is... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Liz Lochhead | The play was written for the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company
, who first performed it in Edinburgh on 24 January 1986. Lochhead surprised herself with her use of the Scots language: my grandmother's .... |
| Leisure and Society | Queen Victoria | Among her favourite writers were Alfred Tennyson
, Sir Walter Scott
, George Eliot
(whose The Mill on the Floss made a deep impression Victoria, Queen. Queen Victoria in Her Letters and Journals. Editor Hibbert, Christopher, Penguin, 1985. 116 |
| Literary responses | Joanna Baillie | One of these Scots songs, the humorous Fee him, father, fee him, written for her friend and fellow-author Fanny Head
of Ashfield in Devon, was early enough to be admired by Burns
. Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851, edited by Jennifer Breen, Manchester University Press, 1999, pp. 1-25. 12 |
| Literary responses | Joanna Baillie | The Eclectic Magazine raised her confidence about her Scots songs by pronouncing that she was easily the equal in the genre of Scott
or Campbell
, and inferior only to Burns
himself. Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851, edited by Jennifer Breen, Manchester University Press, 1999, pp. 1-25. 13 |
| Literary responses | Ann Yearsley | Again one of Yearsley's most perceptive readers was Anna Seward
, who wrote to Helen Maria Williams
on Christmas Day 1787 that Yearsley and Burns
were both miracles . . . . Perhaps she has... |
| Literary responses | Susanna Blamire | In 1886 the Dictionary of National Biography said SBdeserves more recognition than she has yet received. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements. |
| Literary responses | Jean Plaidy | Irish critic Colm Tóibín
, who at fourteen used to pretend to be the doomed, charismatic queen, feels that of all the many writers who have treated Mary in fiction, from Burns
, Wordsworth
... |
| Literary responses | Janet Little | Frances Anna Dunlop
made her final mention of JL
in her correspondence with Burns
: a fierce reproof for his contemptuous response to Little's Poetical Works. Burns, Robert, and Frances Anna Dunlop. Robert Burns and Mrs. Dunlop. Editor Wallace, William, 1843 - 1921, Hodder and Stoughton, 1898, http://BARD. 378-81 |
| Literary responses | Dora Sigerson | 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... |
| Literary responses | Isabel Pagan | Critic Kirsteen McCue
has examined the issued involved in the dispute over whether Burns
or Pagan was the author of the song, and over which was the first to convey it to print. McCue, Kirsteen. “Burns, Women and Song”. Robert Burns and Cultural Authority, edited by Robert Crawford, University of Iowa Press, 1997, pp. 40-57. |
| Literary responses | Anne Hunter | AH
was estimated to be one of the most widely-known women poets of her time. Hunter, Anne. The Life and Poems of Anne Hunter, Haydn’s Tuneful Voice. Editor Grigson, Caroline, Liverpool University Press, 2009. 40 Armstrong, Isobel, and Anne Hunter. “Introduction”. The Life and Poems of Anne Hunter, Haydn’s Tuneful Voice, Liverpool University Press, 2009, pp. 1-11. 1 |
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