Robert Burns

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

Her spirited preface outspokenly addresses the handicaps confronting lower-class writers, especially women. She observes that her fellow labouring-class poets, Burns and Bloomfield , hard though they worked, did not have a woman's cares. She writes...

MR calls Burns 's death an irreparable loss to the public, but concentrates more on his character than his writings, as needing more defence. Indeed, she suggests that Burns in conversation and argument was...

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...

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...

The volume declared itself as juvenilia by noting at the outset that the poems had been composed between the ages of eight and thirteen, and appending to some of them the ages at which they...

JL tells Burns she is somewhat in love with the Muses, and warmly celebrates his achievements in verse.

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...

Their move back to England was facilitated by a legacy of £5,000 from Anne's father. They bought the estate the previous year for £13,000 (including standing timber worth £3,280). AM sold the house, estate...