Robert Burns

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Standard Name: Burns, Robert
Engraving of Robert Burns, related to the painting by Alexander Nasmyth. This image extends to three-quarter length, showing Burns seated outdoors with a book in one hand and pencil in the other.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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, 1999, pp. 1-25.
8-9 and n31
Textual Production Jackie Kay
JK titled her new poetry collection Fiere: a Scots word for friend or companion, familiar to many from Burns 's Auld Lang Syne. She dedicated it to Ali Smith .
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Kay, Jackie. Fiere. Pan Macmillan Picador, 2011.
prelims
Textual Production Sophie Veitch
With Duncan Moray, Farmer (a three-volume novel published both at London and at Paisley in Scotland in early 1890),
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
The early date comes from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
SV reverted to a Scottish setting...
Textual Production Joanna Baillie
She thus made part of the Scottish ballad revival forwarded by individuals of several generations including Allan Ramsay , Elizabeth, Lady Wardlaw , Jean Elliott , Alison Cockburn , her aunt Anne Hunter , Burns
Textual Production Helen Craik
HC , in her late thirties, penned her first work which is known to survive: a poem written in Robert Burns 's copy of his Poems published at Edinburgh.
Craciun, Adriana, and Kari E. Lokke, editors. “The New Cordays: Helen Craik and British Representations of Charlotte Corday, 1793-1800”. Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution, State University of New York Press, 2001, pp. 193-32.
229n56
Textual Production Jackie Kay
JK was one of twenty Scottish authors invited to contribute a monologue to a collaborative work entitled Dear Scotland, which was first performed by the Scottish National Theatre on 24 April 2014 as a...
Textual Production Helen Craik
HC wrote a ten-line poem in praise of Burns , which is copied at the head of his Glenriddell Manuscript (below the title, before his dated preface).
Burns, Robert. The Glenriddell Manuscripts of Robert Burns. Editor Donaldson, Desmond, E. P. Publishing, 1973.
prelims
Textual Production Joanna Baillie
She agreed to do this without payment, though Thomson gave her an Indian shawl when adding to his first request six years later.
Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851, edited by Jennifer Breen, Manchester University Press, 1999, pp. 1-25.
9, 11
Baillie at first demurred, claiming that her talents did not...
Textual Production Eleanor Farjeon
EF kept up her talent for pastiche. In 1915 she produced versions of It's a long way to Tipperary in the respectives styles of Whitman , Burns , Rossetti , Herrick , Swinburne , and Tom Moore .
qtd. in
Farjeon, Annabel. Morning has Broken: A Biography of Eleanor Farjeon. Julia MacRae, 1986.
115
Textual Production Mary Lamb
In her earliest extant letter, to Sarah Stoddart , Mary Lamb remarked (quite unfairly to herself): I am always a miserable letter writer, and I feel the want, in writing to a new friend of...
Textual Production Lesley Storm
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...
Textual Production Helen Mathers
The book took its title from the popular Robert Burns song Comin' Thro' the Rye. It was founded on the experience of her own early life, and that of her numerous brothers and sisters...
Textual Production Helen Craik
HC was said after her death to have published writings in French, but these have not been traced. Some of her manuscripts are in private hands. Burns 's two surviving letters to her are in...
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, 1843 - 1921, Hodder and Stoughton, 1898, 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, 1986.
5
NM kept writing through difficult home front conditions, mostly at Carradale House...

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