Robert Burns

Although he comments on the defects caused by a lack of classical education, and seems to rate her moral character more highly than her literary ability, Gilfillan pronounces Hamilton's work to be of uncommon excellence...

The publisher was Knott . The title-page quotes Socrates and Burns . The work is dedicated to the Rev. John Disney . MH 's sister, Eliza or Elizabeth, contributed two Moral Essays. Mary Wollstonecraft

CMS 's first novel, A New-England Tale; or, Sketches of New-England Character and Manners, was licensed: it appeared anonymously that year, with a title-page stanza from Robert Burns , dedicated to Maria Edgeworth .

It was very generally ascribed to Burns ; Carolina Nairne heard this ascription made in her presence, but she said she never answered.

It was dedicated to James Bedingfield , and the title page gave her name along with a quotation from Burns .

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...

The play's title comes from well-known lines in Robert Burns 's poem To a Mouse about plans going haywire (as does John Steinbeck 's better-known novella Of Mice and Men, 1937).

Purdie and Smith worked at the behest of an all-female editorial committeeThe anthology came out in six volumes, printing the music along with the words of its songs; its editor was the greatest...

At eleven or twelve EG began to scribble in secret—poetry of course; for what youthful writer at that stage of his or her existence would stoop to prose! Most of her poems were elegies on...

This best-known and most widely sung of all Scots songs dates from, at latest, the beginning of the eighteenth century. Many different writers turned their hand to new versions of it, including Burns , whose...

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.

These poems, wrote Voynich, were immortal lyrics hidden away from Western Europe in a minor Slavonic idiom between Russian, Servian, and Polish. She called Shevenko the Robert Burns of his own region,

AG 's Introductory Verses, addressed to dead and living friends, begin: Go, artless records of a life obscure, and liken herself to the nightingale singing with a thorn in her breast. The poems...

Her range of literary reference and comment is wide: as well as Richardson (whose Clarissa she unequivocally praises), it encompasses Blair , Sterne and Smollett as travel-writers, and Homer . Grant charges Samuel Johnson

The poems include epistles, translations from Gaelic, and occasional poetry including a piece on the death of Burns . Apart from calling herself the rural muse, Grant also emphasises her Scottish identity: her characteristic...