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 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.
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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 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 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.
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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.
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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 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.
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NM kept writing through difficult home front conditions, mostly at Carradale House...
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.
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Textual Production Janet Hamilton
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Felicia Hemans
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Janet Little
JL tells Burns she is somewhat in love with the Muses, and warmly celebrates his achievements in verse.
qtd. in
Paterson, James. “Janet Little, the Scottish Milkmaid”. The Contemporaries of Burns, edited by James Paterson, AMS Press, 1976, pp. 78-91.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Whateley Darwall
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...

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