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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Reception | Isa Craig | IC
was awarded first prize of fifty guineas at the Burns Centenary Festival for her Ode on Burns
. Some sources give the year of this event wrongly. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Reception | Catherine Gore | Particularly popular were three pieces she wrote in 1827: music for Burns
's And ye shall walk in silk attire, for the Scottish Highland song Welcome, welcome, and for the ballad Three Long Years. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
| Reception | Liz Lochhead | LL
was the subject of two National Book League
pamphlets, in 1978 and again in 1986. She was one of the first four twentieth-century Scottish poets (of a total of twelve) whose busts were placed... |
| Residence | Alison Cockburn | As a widow living in EdinburghAC
was, according to Sarah Tytler
and Jean L. Watson
, a lively cultural influence, serving as a connecting-link between the Edinburgh of Allan Ramsay
and Burns
, and... |
| Textual Features | Eliza Cook | Her poetic topics strongly reflect her reliance on well-tried promoters of sentiment: death, parting, gypsies, favourite horses and dogs, local feeling for Scotland or Ireland. The collection closes with a section of poems for... |
| Textual Features | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
has no patience with Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
's The Countess and Gertrude or with Byron
's Childe Harold. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers. 1: 133, 152 |
| Textual Features | Carol Ann Duffy | Titled simply September 2014 and headed with a Gaelic greeting that translates as I love you, this short poem highlights the shared prickliness of the two national symbols and the pilgrimage of an English... |
| Textual Features | Catherine Hutton | Jane Oakwood's brother has only one woman author (Elizabeth Inchbald
) in his library; Jane on the other hand is a mine of information and opinion about several generations of a female literary tradition... |
| Textual Features | Janet Little | She consistently takes a challenging stance in face of authority. Ironically (in view of Johnson's championing of women writers and Burns's snobbish attitude about herself) she uses Samuel Johnson
as a symbol of the tyrant-critic... |
| Textual Features | Ellen Johnston | EJ
's poems are traditional in form, at times clumsy in their scansion, but often very effective in their use of rhythms and repetitions indebted both to Burns
and to the folk song tradition. Indeed... |
| Textual Features | Isabel Pagan | IP
presents herself jauntily in Account of the Author's Lifetime, the first poem in the volume. When I see merry company, / I sing a song with mirth and glee, / And sometimes I... |
| Textual Features | Ali Smith | 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... |
| Textual Production | Janet Little | Frances Anna Dunlop
, her employer, sent a specimen of JL
's poetry to Robert Burns
. Burns, Robert, and Frances Anna Dunlop. Robert Burns and Mrs. Dunlop. Editor Wallace, William, Hodder and Stoughton, http://BARD. 185, 203-4 |
| Textual Production | Naomi Mitchison | The title quotation from Robert Burns
describes the writer almost as a spy on society; it continues, And faith he'll prent it. Mitchison, Naomi. Among You Taking Notes . . . The Wartime Diary of Naomi Mitchison 1939-1945. Editor Sheridan, Dorothy, Oxford University Press. 5 |
| Textual Production | Joanna Baillie | JB
had agreed to write for anthologist George Thomson
(the successor to Burns
in this work) about twenty original or adapted poems to go to Scottish, Irish, or Welsh tunes. Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851, edited by Jennifer Breen, Manchester University Press, pp. 1-25. 8-9 and n31 |
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