Robert Burns

In 1937, Macmillan published selections in volume form under the same title, which is adapted from one of EMD 's favourite poems, Robert Burns 's To a Louse.

But most poems in this volume are occasional, more or less public. MWD wrote about buildings: the fake-medieval Hockley Abbey near Birmingham and the genuine medieval Kenilworth Castle. She wrote about Scotland: ballads...

The book is headed with romantic lines from Thomas Davies [sic] about successive migrants and visitors to Ireland, from the brown Phoenician to the iron Lords of Normandy. The next epigraph comes from Burns

The preface expresses admiration for both Burns and George Dyer . ABC stresses her lack of education (which, critic Richard C. Sha argues, associates herself with lower-class writers like William Blake and Henry Kirke White

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).

HC 's friends included the writers Maria Riddell and Robert Burns (as well as the former's brother-in-law Robert Riddell ). She corresponded with Burns, and praised his work in high terms.

In this poem HC celebrates Burns 's native genius, gay, unique, and strong, and contrasts his independence and inborn merit with rank and riches.

In this month Burns wrote to her about correcting and revising her manuscript.

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...

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.

IC was awarded first prize of fifty guineas at the Burns Centenary Festival for her Ode on Burns .

As befits an entry in a contest of this kind, the poem rings with a celebratory and worshipful tone. It portrays Burns as a peasant-king and poet-martyr whose verse speaks across borders to the entire...

Under this misapprehension about their origin, readers singled out for praise the originality of the voice, energy of the style, and optimism of the tone, and likened the poems to those of Robert Burns .

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...

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...