Robert Burns

With Duncan Moray, Farmer (a three-volume novel published both at London and at Paisley in Scotland in early 1890),SV reverted to a Scottish setting...

JB had agreed to write for anthologist George Thomson (the successor to Burns in this work) about twenty original or adapted poems to go to Scottish, Irish, or Welsh tunes.

JK titled her new poetry collection Fiere: a Scots word for friend or companion, familiar to many from Burns 's Auld Lang Syne. She dedicated it to Ali Smith .

She thus made part of the Scottish ballad revival forwarded by individuals of several generations including Allan Ramsay , Elizabeth, Lady Wardlaw , Jean Elliott , Alison Cockburn , her aunt Anne Hunter , Burns

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.

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...

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).

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...

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...

She agreed to do this without payment, though Thomson gave her an Indian shawl when adding to his first request six years later. Baillie at first demurred, claiming that her talents did not...

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 .

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...

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...