Robert Burns

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...

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.

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...

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 ...

Running her magazine did not keep HM from other projects. She published two single-authored novels in 1891 (My Jo, John—titled from another well-known song by Burns —and The Mystery of No. 13)...

Mrs Dunlop (mother-in-law of the writer Eglinton, Lady Wallace) was an important patron of Robert Burns and corresponded with him extensively.JL therefore found herself working in a household with literary connections.

MR was a talented amateur poet, diarist, letter-writer, and writer for children during the Romantic period. She published in 1788 a travel book about the Caribbean which is remarkable for its scientific observation, a critical...

MR 's perceptive and generous analysis and appreciation of Burns 's character and writings appeared anonymously in the Dumfries Weekly Journal only a fortnight after his death.

MA 's best-known novel, The Wooing O't, titled from a song by Robert Burns , appeared in instalments in Temple Bar; in book form it appeared on 11 September 1873 under her new...

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...

HMW published her Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating the Slave Trade. (The bill was that of Sir William Dolben .) She sent a copies of her poem to Robert Burns (who...

In 1859, the centenary of Robert Burns 's birth, CN published in the Daily Scotsman, and independently as an 8-page pamphlet, verses on the poet.

Parts of CC 's critical biography The Life of Robert Burns (published this month and dedicated to her husband, Donald Carswell , and to D. H. Lawrence ) were serialised in the GlasgowDaily Record...

Burns returned the loan of MR 's commonplace-book, which he had read, he said, with much pleasure, just after the mysterious event which gave serious offence on both sides, and was to keep them...

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.