Robert Burns

The title-page of volume one of Graham Hamilton quotes Burns ; the second quotes Swift denouncing scandal. Though quieter, this novel again displays splendid satirical energy. It contains only one lyric (written by Nathan for...

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...

The title-page quotes Burns and Scott . The preface remarks that books based on female impressions of national manners and moral character have succeeded in the past. The book is again made up...

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

In a critical preface HS reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford or Edward Bulwer Lytton ). The two groups of lovers and...

Among her favourite writers were Alfred Tennyson , Sir Walter Scott , George Eliot (whose The Mill on the Floss made a deep impression on her), and Charles Kingsley , whose Two Years Ago...

In 1886 the Dictionary of National Biography said SBdeserves more recognition than she has yet received.An article in the Journal of the Lakeland Dialect Society in 1947 argued that her best work was...

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 ...

Again one of Yearsley's most perceptive readers was Anna Seward , who wrote to Helen Maria Williams on Christmas Day 1787 that Yearsley and Burns were both miracles . . . . Perhaps she has...

Frances Anna Dunlop made her final mention of JL in her correspondence with Burns : a fierce reproof for his contemptuous response to Little's Poetical Works.

A central figure in both Irish and English literary circles as well as in Irish politics, DS sought, through writing ballads, to recuperate the lost tradition of Irish balladry and folklore while simultaneously addressing the...

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.

Some nineteenth-century commentators made high claims for COLN , ranking her close to Burns himself (though Burns scholars have found it hard to forgive her unacted-on intention of producing a bowdlerised edition of Burns). She...

AH was estimated to be one of the most widely-known women poets of her time. After centuries of neglect, critic Isobel Armstrong has pointed out that AH was admired by Burns and helped...

For more than four years, from December 1788 to March 1793, Frances Anna Dunlop peppered her letters to Burns with comments about JL 's poetry, and sought to elicit criticism in return. When Burns first...