Robert Burns

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.

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...

Not all IP 's writing went into her printed volume. She was believed to be the author of two songs which became popular: Crook and Plaid and (the most famous among her works) Ca' the...

This volume, like those BRP had already published, also covers a range of topics including the natural world, religious questions, Robert Burns , and places like Italy and Algiers. The poem entitled...

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 ...

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...

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.

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 brother-in-law Robert Riddell of Glenriddell , who lived at Friar's Carse in Dumfries, was to shape her life through his literary antiquarianism and especially through his friendship with Robert Burns .

In the public mind MR is remembered primarily as a friend of Robert Burns . She first met him in late 1791. They soon developed a free-and-easy, bantering, affectionate correspondence. It was not exclusively literary...

As a friend rather than a lover, Burns was crucially helpful to MR . He first put her in touch with the printer, intellectual, and naturalist William Smellie , who published her work and became...

The Christmas rupture with Burns seems to have taken effect only gradually. After the key event Burns sent MR a copy of Werther (Goethe 's novel, probably in English translation) as well as returning...

During the last months of Burns 's life, Riddell was again sending him her verses to read. He dined at her house, though too weak to walk, on 5 July 1796, and asked her sardonically...

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...