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Index to Reading Robert Burns: Texts, Contexts, Transformations, book 6 in the series Poetry and Song in the Age of Revolution, published by Pickering & Chatto.
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Addison, Joseph, 46, 91–2Aiken, Andrew, 69Aiken, Robert, 5, 30–1, 36–9Ainslie, Robert, 109 ‘Alexander’s Feast’, see Dryden, JohnAlloway, 91–2, 168, 170–2, 174, 180, 183Alloway kirk, 168, 170–2, 174, 183
see also ‘Tam o’Shanter’, under Burns, Robert, poems and songs
An Evening Walk, 75, 89see also Wordsworth, William
Anacreontics, 157Anchises, 168, 175
see also Virgil, AeneidAnderson, Benedict, 18–20Apollo, 151, 163–5
see also Cynthia Apollonian and Dionysian, 151
see also Nietzsche, Friedrichaporia, 79
see also Derrida, JacquesArmour, James and Mary, 30–1, 35, 68, 94,
103Armour, Jean, 26, 37, 59, 78, 99
1786 agreement with Burns, 5, 30–5, 40, 68–9, 99, 103
Dumfries and later life in, 15, 94, 96, 175Augustan poets, 89, 92Austen, Jane, 26, 132
Bacchus, 61, 163–4Bachelor’s Club (Tarbolton), 20Baillie, Joanna, 9Bakhtin, M. M., 22ballads, 4, 75, 101, 135, 178
Burns and, 118, 122–3, 151, 166, 187–8
‘Th e Whistle’, 7, 160, 162–7, 181see also ‘Whistle. A Ballad, Th e’, under
Burns, Robert, poems and songsColeridge and, 101Fergusson and, 162metre, 46, 52music in, 135, 162
Ballantine, John, 38–9Balliol, John, 124Bannockburn, Battle of, 141–2, 187
see also ‘Scots Wha Hae’, under Burns, Robert, poems and songs,
Barbauld, Anna Aiken, 23, 26bawdry, 18, 20Beattie, James, 12, 42Bécourt, 24
see also ‘Ça ira’Benjamin, Walter, 7, 98Berryman, John, 1Bhabha, Homi K., 9, 17Blair, Hugh, 16, 26, 63, 72Blake, William, 21, 27Bonnie Prince Charlie, see Charles Edward
StuartBorges, Jorge Luis, 114Boswell, James, 9, 38Bourdieu, Pierre, 12Boyne, Battle of the, 113–14
see also ‘Strong Walls of Derry’ and Scots Musical Museum, Th e
Bradwardine, Baron, 119, 130see also Sir Walter Scott and Waverley
Braudy, Leo, 73brawl poems, Scottish, 7, 53, 152, 157,
159–60, 181Bremner’s A Collection of Scots Reels, 139Brice, David, 32
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Brown, Richard, 56Bruce, Robert, 141–2, 187–8
see also Bannockburn, Battle ofBuchan, William, Domestic Medicine, 153Burnes, Agnes (poet’s mother), 31, 175Burnes, William (poet’s father), 4, 7, 29, 42,
65, 132 A Manual of Religious Belief, 179–80schooling of Burns, 90–1and ‘Tam o’Shanter’, 168–71
Burns, Elizabeth (Bess), 33, 36–7, 39, 42, 122
Burns, Francis Wallace, 96Burns, Gilbert, 31, 33, 39, 132, 166
narratives about Robert Burns, 34–8, 91, 158, 170
Burns, Isabella (Isobel), 169Burns, Robert, poems and songs:
‘Address of Beelzebub’, 26‘Address to the Deil’, 30, 53, 62, 66, 180‘Ae Fond Kiss’, 83, 133‘Auld Lang Syne’, 133‘Author’s Earnest Cry and Prayer, Th e’,
30, 53, 55, 61, 120–1, 160‘Bard’s Epitaph, A’, 5, 76, 98, 104–6
symbolic burial in, 30, 70, 72‘Broom Besoms’ [B], 22‘Charlie is My Darling’,123‘Corn Rigs’, 70, 190‘Cotter’s Saturday Night, Th e’, 5, 7, 11,
30, 54, 189infl uence on Nairne, 140mixed diction of, 56, 71, 77, 90Robert Aiken addressed in, 37–8virtuous peasantry and national charac-
ter in, 22, 47, 53, 79William Burnes remembered in, 54, 65,
169, 175‘Death and Dr Hornbook’, 2, 41, 151–6
aligned with ‘Tam o’Shanter’, 167, 171, 174, 178, 182
as tall tale, 153, 158, 163, 166–7domestication of death in, 168exposé of local secrets, 151, 155Fergusson’s infl uence on, 152MacDiarmid’s ‘A Drunk Man’ and, 7,
156medical overconfi dence in, 152, 154–5
misread as autobiographical, 158resists prescription, 167
‘Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie, Th e’, 3, 11, 44, 52, 62–4
as comic elegy, 54‘Despondency, an Ode’, 5, 32, 98–102
infl uence on Coleridge’s ‘Dejection, an Ode, 5, 68, 76
‘Dream, A’, 56, 64, 78–9‘Epistle from Esopus to Maria’, 26, 189‘Epistle to Davie’, 41, 67, 72–3, 102
homelessness in, 53, 68stanza form of, 102
see also ‘Cherry and the Slae’‘Epistle to James Smith’, 13, 53, 64, 66–7,
76, 104‘Epistle to John Lapraik’, 13, 44, 70, 96
JL’s imprisonment for debt, 67‘Epitaph on a Henpeck’d Country
Squire’, 70‘Farewell to the Highlands’, 109–10, 112,
114–16see also Scots Musical Museum
‘Flow Gently, Sweet Aft on’, 112‘From thee, Eliza, I must go’, 70‘Gloomy Night is Gathering Fast, Th e’,
71–2, 112‘Green Grow the Rashes’, 46‘Greensleeves’, 19‘greybeard, old wisdom, may boast of his
treasures, Th e’, 182‘Halloween’, 53, 55–6, 64–5‘Handsome Nell’ (‘O once I lov’d’), 44,
46‘Hey tutie tatey’, 141–2‘Highland balou, Th e’, 118–19 ‘Holy Fair, Th e’, 30, 50, 53, 55, 62–4, 181
Chrystis Kirk stanza in, 157‘Holy Willie’s Prayer’, 31, 38, 41, 62, 125,
188as ‘drunk man’ poem, 152
see also Fisher, William‘I murder hate’, 21, 182 ‘In politics if thou would’st mix’, 181‘Is there, for honest Poverty’ (‘A Man’s a
Man’), 18, 22–3, 145–6, 149, 189‘Jeremiah 15.th Ch. 10 V’, 102–3‘John Barleycorn, 44, 52–3, 190
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‘Lament, Th e’, 32, 68, 99, 103‘Logan Water’, 20, 22–3‘Love and Liberty: A Cantata’, 116–17,
125–6, 158recitativo sections, 102 speakers in, 3, 16, 22, 119–21, 126, 153suppression of, 63, 72, 103, 116
‘Man Was Made to Mourn’, 46, 68, 76, 190
death in, 27, 69metre and stanza, 46–7social criticism in, 85–6, 88
‘Montgomerie’s Peggy’, 45‘My bottle is a holy pool’, 182–3‘My girl she’s airy’, 49‘O an ye were dead, guidman’, 120‘O May thy morn’, 133‘O’er the Water to Charlie’, 114, 122‘On a Scotch Bard Gone to the West
Indies’, 67, 69, 77‘On the Death of Sir J. Hunter Blair’,
96–7‘Poor Mailie’s Elegy’, 52, 55, 79‘Prayer in the Prospect of Death, A’, 68‘Rights of Woman, Th e’, 23–5 ‘Scotch Drink’, 30, 53, 61, 176‘Scots Ballad’ (‘Bonie Lass of Albanie’),
122‘Scots Wha Hae’, 73, 83, 141–3, 187‘Scottish Ballad’ (‘Last May a braw
wooer’), 187–8‘Slave’s Lament, Th e’, 73, 125‘small birds rejoice, Th e’, 110, 122–3, 135‘Song, Composed in August’, 68, 70, 173‘Strathallan’s Lament’, 110–12, 114‘Tam Glen’, 125‘Tam Lin’, 47‘Tam o’Shanter’, 2–3, 83, 151, 158–60,
166–79, 181–9Hugh MacDiarmid’s adaptation of, 7,
160, 176–7see also MacDiarmid, Hugh
mock epic, as, 73see also mock-epic
narrator as witness in, 164, 172, 176utopian element in, 182
Wordsworth and, 76, 88–9, 166see also ‘Benjamin the Waggoner’,
under Wordsworth, William, shorter poems
‘Tam Samson’s Elegy’, 76, 96–8‘Th ames fl ows proudly to the sea, Th e’,
124‘Th ou lingering star’, 112‘To a Haggis’, 14–15, 21‘To a Louse’, 15–17, 55, 70, 73, 78‘To a Mountain Daisy’, 5, 32, 55, 68–9,
88, 95–6Wordsworth and, 76, 95–6
‘To a Mouse’, 55, 65–8, 73, 78, 96emergence of the Poet Burns persona,
5, 71homelessness in, 66–7
‘To Ruin’, 69, 101‘To the Same’ (Second Epistle to
Lapraik), 44, 67, 70, 96Wordsworth’s recitation of, 77
‘To William S*****n’ (William Simson), 162
‘Vision, Th e’, 2, 56, 79–80, 92–3, 96–100, 126
addressed in Wordsworth’s ‘Resolution and Independence’, 84–5
Burns as laureate of Kyle in, 56, 69, 77–8, 84, 110
complaints about poverty in, 64, 79, 81descriptive stanzas cut for the 1786
Poems, 78Jean Armour’s name removed from,
32, 68 mixed personae (Burness and Burns) in,
65–6, 77, 79poetry and transgression in, 83poets and landscapes in, 81, 83 Wordsworth’s interpretation of, 5,
76–7, 80, 93–5, 96, 98–9Wordsworth’s recitation of, 77‘zenith’ poets, and, 82
see also Coila‘When she cam ben she bobbed’, 132‘Whistle. A Ballad, Th e’, 160–7, 172,
177, 181as mock epic, 2–3, 7, 164, 166
see also mock-epic
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use of Greek and Ossianic mythologies in, 163
‘Winter Night, A’, 189‘Winter, a Dirge’, 52–3, 68‘Ye fl owery banks o’ bonie Doon’, 47‘Yon wild mossy mountains’, 21
Burns, Robert,as editor of songs, 27, 41, 113, 115coded authorship, 1, 27, 106, 112, 114,
185copyright, 1, 33, 39, 162death, 63, 89, 96, 98, 178diction
English, 45, 50, 92, 117, 156hybrid, 1, 4, 9, 16, 56, 90, 135in songs, 41‘natural’, 8, 23neoclassical, 7, 82stylised, 11, 163, 171vernacular, 3, 49, 61, 90working people, of, 12, 18, 149,
Highland landscape in, 111, 114–15, 119, 121, 123, 126
Lowland landscape in, 48, 71, 78–9, 81masculinism and, 20–3, 25 mock-elegy, 55, 70, 96–7mock-epic, 21, 96–7, 154, 158, 163,
166–72mixed diction in, 7, 92, 174–6and ‘Poet Burns’ persona, 3, 73
see also Poet Burns personanational song and, 6, 93, 135–6, 150observing eye, his, 166–7, 172oxymoron, 62, 153, 163, 166, 168‘Patriot-bard’, as, 11, 65, 103
see also ‘Th e Cotter’s Saturday Night’, under Burns, Robert, poems and songs
speech acts in, 66syllepsis in, 62, 153, 163tavern cameraderie in, 7, 20, 56–7,
173–4, 176, 181–2Burns, Robert, the Younger, 94Byron, George Gordon Noël, Baron, 81
‘Ça ira’, 23–26see also Bécourt
Calvinism, 31, 33, 53–4, 78, 171, 179–81
Cameron, May, 124Campbell, John Lorne, 136–7Campbell, Margaret, see Highland MaryCampbell of Colquhoun, Mrs, 143Carlisle, 125, 138Carlyle, Alexander, 17Carlyle, Th omas, 26Carswell, Catherine, 24Cervantes, Miguel de, 114Chalmers, Margaret, 124Chambers, Robert, 14–15, 169Charles Edward Stuart, 134, 138, 147
as portrayed in Burns, 110, 118, 119, 121–2, 123–4, 126
death of, 122, 138disguise as Betty Burke, 133Nairne and, 6, 130, 134–5, 136, 147–8see also Stuart, Charlotte, Duchess of
AlbanyChatterton, Th omas, 84–5‘Cherry and the Slae’ metre, 52, 54, 59,
101–2see also Montgomerie, Alexander
Chevalier, Th e, see Charles Edward Stuart‘Chrystis Kirk of the Green’, 157
stanza-form and rhyme, 52–4, 59Clanranald, Clan Macdonald of, 117–18Clarinda, see Agnes M’LehoseClow, Jenny, 124Coila (Muse of Kyle), 56, 59, 64, 66, 71–2
in ‘Th e Vision’ 77–84, 87, 89, 93, 110Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 97, 99, 107, 156
Burns texts admired by, 5, 68‘Dejection’, 5–6, 101friendship with Wordsworth, 76, 88, 93,
97, 105, 107‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Th e’, 156
Comyn, John (Red Comyn), 124Count of Albany, Th e, see Charles Edward
StuartCovenanters’ tunes (‘Dundee’,‘Elgin’, ‘Mar-
tyrs’), 47–8Craigdarroch, Alexander Fergusson of,
162–5Crawford, Robert, 92Crawford, Th omas, 12, 77, 119Creech, William, 20, 39, 162 Crochallan Fencibles, 20, 124, 137
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Cromek, R. H., Reliques of Robert Burns, 44, 49, 94
crones, 117, 120–1, 124, 126 Culloden, 17, 112, 123, 141
Burns’s family and, 132Nairne’s family and, 6, 128, 130
Cunningham, Alexander, 94, 136Cunningham, Allan, 29, 56, 58, 76–7Currie, James, 94–5, 179
Works of Burns, With an Account of His Life, 21, 34, 49, 123
Cynthia (goddess), 163–5
Daiches, David, 9death-drive (Freud), 174Deleuze, Gilles and Félix Guattari, 27Derrida, Jacques, 79, 185, 188–90‘Deserted Village, Th e’, see Goldsmith,
OliverDick, James C., 142Dods, Captain, 25Domestic Medicine, see Buchan, WilliamDonaldson, William, 121, 142Douglas, Charles, 35, 37, 39Douglas, Gavin, Eneados, 167–8Douglas, Patrick, 35, 37–9Douglass, Frederick, 4, 189–90 Dress Act, Th e (1746), 111Drummond of Hawthornden, William, 197Dryden, John, 91, 163Duck, Stephen, 12Dumfries, 93–4, 112, 181–2Dunbar, William, 9, 157–8Dunlop, Anna Wallace, 34, 36, 78, 180Dunn, Douglas, 101Dylan, Bob, 109–10, 113, 116, 143
Edinburgh, Burns and, 27, 39, 57, 111, 123–4, 141
Edinburgh Castle, 6, 127–8Edinburgh Review, 13Eliot, T. S., 1, 8–9, 156Ellisland farm, 27, 159 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 2, 16, 27, 190emigration, 31–5, 37–40, 70, 73, 110, 189epic, 163–4, 167–8, 170–1 erotic songs, see bawdry
exile, 5, 18, 24–5, 88in Burns’s family, 26, 71–4, 96, 124–6,
132in Burns’s Highland songs, 109–16, 143in Dante, 88in Nairne, 130
Excise, Th e, 23, 27, 74, 91, 93–4, 158–9 Fencibles, Crochallan, 20, 124, 137Fénelon, François, Les Adventures de Télé-
mache, 91Fergusson, Robert, 18, 29, 57, 102–3,
153–5, 183 biography, 7, 57, 77, 103, 159–60, 183bodies and embodiment, 176–7, 179‘brawl’ poem reinvented by, 157–8death in, 154, 160, 176, 178–9drink and, 6–7, 62, 64, 151–2, 177Edinburgh and, 11, 62–5, 152, 160–1,
162emulation by Burns, 4, 51, 53, 54, 60–5,
77midnight in, 158, 160poems:
‘Auld Reikie’, 154, 161–2, 176‘BUGS, Th e’, 70‘Caller Water’, 61–2, 153‘Canongate Playhouse in Ruins, Th e’,
63, 102‘Drink Eclogue, A’, 152 ‘Good Eating’, 161‘Farmer’s Ingle, Th e’, 4, 53, 56 ‘Hallow-Fair’, 62‘Hame Content’, 60‘Job. Chap III. Paraphrased’, 178‘King’s Birth-day in Edinburgh, Th e’,
157, 161‘Leith Races’, 62, 157 ‘Mutual Complaint of Plainstanes and
Causey, Th e’, 155, 160‘On Seeing a Butterfl y in the Street’,
178‘Ode to Hope’, 176–7‘Rising of the Session, Th e’, 161‘To Andrew Gray’, 160–1 ‘To My Old Breeks’, 179
Poems (1773), 63poverty of, 161–62 slovenly attire, 162
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vernacular forms and dialect, 18, 53–4, 63standard Habbie, 29, 53–4, 62
whistle as trope in, 160–2, 165–6 Findlater, Alexander, 93–4First Commonplace Book, Th e, 40–50, 68–9,
73, 182experiments with text placement and
commentary, 36, 55metres used in, 3, 29, 71, 102, 106songs and poems in, 2–4speakers as observers in, 32 title page of, 40–1, 49, 57–8
Fisher, William, 11, 189see also ‘Holy Willie’s Prayer’, under
Burns, Robert, poems and songsFletcher, Elizabeth, 77, 84Fontenelle, Louisa, 23–4
see also ‘Th e Rights of Woman’, under Burns, Robert, poems and songs
Franklin, Benjamin, 24, 38Freud, Sigmund, Beyond the Pleasure Prin-
ciple, 174Freemasons, 20, 38, 137, 166, 181 Fuss, Diana, 20
gaberlunzie (beggar), 119Gaelic, 9, 17, 19, 112, 133, 135–40
Burns’s Gaelic-derived words, 116–17Fergusson’s Gaelic speakers, 63
Galloway Tam (song-protagonist), 112Gebbie, Eliza, 69–70Th e Gentle Shepherd, see Ramsay, AllanGeorge IV, 131, 147
as Prince of Wales, 22,122Gilfallan, George, 157Gill, Stephen, 77Glenriddell Manuscript, 49, 103, 165‘God Save the King’, 24–6Goldsmith, Oliver, 42, 62, 90
‘Th e Deserted Village’, 4, 11Gow, Nathaniel, 144Gow, Niel, 139Graham, Douglas, 7, 172Graham of Fintry, Robert, 23Gray, Andrew, 160–2, 165–6Gray, Th omas, 6–7, 55, 62, 82–3, 89–90
‘Elegy in a Country Churchyard’, 10–11, 19, 49, 51, 90, 92
illiteracy in, 19, 70, 90, 105‘Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton Col-
lege’, 68, 92, 100–1Grieve, Christopher M., see Hugh MacDi-
armidGrove Dictionary of Music, 93, 135
Habeas Corpus Suspension Act (1794), 118Hamilton, Gavin, 31, 35–6, 69–70Hazlitt, William, 26, 159hell, 62, 138, 153, 168, 172, 180Hemans, Felicia, 26, 140Henryson, Robert, 9Herbert, W. N., 152Heron, Robert, 58‘Hey tutie tatey’ (old Scottish air), 141–3Highlands, 109–16, 118–21, 124, 126, 135
John Highlandman (‘Love and Liberty’), 116–17, 119–20
in Nairne, 6, 130, 140, 148‘Highlands’ (song), see Bob Dylan‘Highland Mary’ (Margaret Campbell), 40,
112Hogg, James, 14, 122, 137–8holy pools, 182–3homelessness, 18, 35, 117, 119, 135Homer, 164Hume, David, 9, 19Hume, Elizabeth and Agnes, 126
Imagined Communities, see Anderson, Benedict
‘Inferno’ (Dante Alighieri), 87–8Irving, David, 159–60
Jacobinism, 88, 111, 141Jacobitism, Burns and, 130, 110–16, 121–2,
125, 133–7, 149Burns’s Jacobite speakers, 114, 121
Jacobite history, 17–18, 111–13, 118–19, 121–5, 135–8, 185
see also Nairne, Carolina (Baroness), née Carolina Oliphant, songs
see also Scottl, Sir Waltersee also MacDonald, Alexandersee also Burns, Robert, poems and songs
Jacobite Relics of Scotland, see Hogg, JamesJacobite songs, 1, 6, 88, 112–13, 118, 141–7
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Jamaica, 5, 69, 96, 111, 173Burns’s projected emigration to, 31–3,
35–8, 56–7, 96, 111, 173see also ‘On a Scotch Bard Gone to the
West Indies’, under Burns, Robert, poems and songs
plantations, slavery Johnson, David, 138Johnson, James, see Scots Musical Museum, Th eJohnson, Samuel, see Th e Rambler
Kaplan, Cora, 25Keats, John, 106Kermode, Frank, 8, 10King Charles III, 121, see Charles Edward
StuartKilmarnock MS, 2, 29, 32, 50, 52–6, 73
relation to Poems (1786), 36, 54Kinsley, James, 59, 99–100, 139, 142, 146,
182conjectural dating of Burns texts, 41–4,
48, 55, 104Kirkoswald, 5, 7, 56, 90, 167, 172–5Kyle, 5, 82, 92, 103, 112
district boundaries, 56, 79, 90, 106, 110, 112
poems and songs mentioning, 43, 69Burns as laureate of, 64–6, 69, 77–8, 84
see also Coila
‘Lamkin’ (ballad), 166Lapraik, John, 13
see also ‘Epistle to John Lapraik’, under Burns, Robert, poems and songs
see also ‘To the Same’, under Burns, Rob-ert, poems and songs
Leask, Nigel, 77Leavis, F. R. and Queenie D., 9Lewars, Jessie, 93, 112, 143literati of Edinburgh, 8, 18, 63 Lochlie farm, 54, 158 Loda, 163–5Lowlands, 17, 19, 120, 124, 126, 135
as ‘Lawlanders’, 117–18, 125Lawrie, Sir Robert, 164 Lunardi, Vincenzo, 16Lyrical Ballads, 75–6, 89, 97, 106
see also Wordsworth, William
MacDiarmid, Hugh, 13, 158, 182, 183 Burns and, 73, 156, 160, 177, 181
adapts ‘Tam o’Shanter’, 7, 160, 176–7Drunk Man Looks at the Th istle, A,
151–7, 166, 176–7, 181–3Kist of Whistles, A, 161Lucky Poet, 154Nairne and, 128
McDiarmid, Matthew, 161MacDonald, Alexander, 133–4, 136–9MacDonald, Flora, 118, 133McIvor, Fergus, 125
see also WaverleyMackay, James, 56Mackenzie, Henry, 13, 26, 39, 158M’Lehose, Agnes, 124, 133–4M’Murdo, John, 165Marx, Groucho, 72Marx, Karl, 27, 182Arthur Masson’s Collection of Prose and Verse,
fr om the Best English Authors, 46, 91–2Masterton, Allan, 111, 137Mauchline, 5, 14, 31, 62, 117, 119Meston, William, 137Miller, Patrick, 165Milton, John, 7, 21, 62, 76, 88, 98–9
Adam and Eve in PL, 61–2, 92, 112, 173‘How soon hath time’, 80‘Il Penseroso’, 182‘L’Allegro’, 188‘Lycidas’, 14, 64Paradise Lost, 13, 53, 91, 111–12‘When I consider’, 83
Mitchell, John, 93mock elegy, 55, 96–7Moore, Dr. John, Burns’s autobiographical
letter to, 34, 56–7, 66, 69, 169, 173–5Zeluco, 36
Montgomerie, Alexander, see ‘Cherry and the Slae’ metre
Morgan, Edwin, 53–4, 72 Mossgiel farm, 34–6, 65, 158 Mount Oliphant farm, 85, 90 Muir, Edwin, 9Muir, Robert, 31, 179Muirhead, James Patrick, 77Murdoch, John, 90–2, 179
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Nairne, Carolina (Baroness), née Carolina Oliphant, 4, 9, 126–32
belated perspective, 6, 134, 136, 150Burns’s infl uence on, 2, 4, 73, 116, 122,
189coded or anonymous authorship, 6,
126–8, 143–4, 147, 150, 185‘Mrs Bogan of Bogan’ (B. B.), 126–7
homeless people in, 6, 135, 147Jacobitism, and, 122, 127–8, 130–1, 134,
143–4, 147–9Jacobite sources, 136–9
Lays of Strathearn [Lays fr om Strathearn], 128, 130, 132
misconceptions about, 128, 147–9national song and, 6, 135–6, 150Scottish Minstrel, 126–8, 132, 140–1,144songs:
‘Auld House, Th e’, 130, 140‘Caller Herring’, 6, 135, 144–5‘Laird o’ Cockpen, Th e’, 131–2‘Land o’ the Leal, Th e’, 142–4‘Lass of Livinstane, Th e’, 140–1 ‘Regalia, Th e’, 128‘Rowan Tree, Th e’, 139–40‘Will Ye No Come Back Again?’, 6, 128,
134, 148, 150‘Would Ye Be Young Again?’, 147
‘Th e Auld House’ (drawing), 147–9Nairne, Lady, see Nairne, BaronessNairne, William Murray, 6, 128, 131New Licht, 54Newman, Steve, 12Nichol, William, 137Nietzsche, Friedrich, 151, 154, 157 Noble, Andrew, 13
odes, 78, 86, 92, 176, 189Burns’s ‘Despondency’, 5–6, 32, 68,
99–102see also Burns, Robert, poems and songs
Coleridge’s’ ‘Dejection’, 5, 101see also Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Gray’s ‘Eton College ode’, 68, 92, 100see also Gray, Th omas
Warton’s laureate odes, 56, 78see also Warton, Th omas
Wordsworth’s ‘Immortality’, 5, 86, 100, 140
see also Wordsworth, WilliamOliphant, Carolina, see Nairne, BaronessOliphant, Charles, 143, 147Oliphant, Laurence, Sr, 130 Oliphant, Laurence, Jr, 126, 143, 147opere buff e, 175Ossian, 62, 96, 98–9, 114, 163–4Oswald’s Pocket Companion, 139‘Over the Water to Ch—lie ( Jacobite stan-
zas), 138
Paine, Th omas, 24–5, 146Parliament, 61, 120–1, 150Paterson, Don, 2, 49Paton, Elizabeth, 30, 33, 39, 42, 57, 78Peblis to the Play, 157Phoebus, 163, 165
see also Apollo‘Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote’, see
Borges, Jorge LuisPindar, 101Pittock, Murray, 138plantations, 3, 30, 33, 36–9, 70, 125Poems, Chiefl y in the Scottish Dialect (1786),
5, 10, 18, 29–30, 40, 56–71motifs of farewell and burial in, 26, 60, 72Wordsworth’s reaction to, 75, 79–80, 83,
95, 98Poems, Chiefl y in the Scottish Dialect (1787),
42, 48, 53, 62, 71, 78changes in and additions to, 32, 64, 71,
78Hugh Blair’s advice and critiques, 16,
63–4 profi ts, 36subscribers, 24, 126
Poems, Chiefl y in the Scottish Dialect (1793), 48, 162
‘Poet Burns’ persona, 3–5, 13–14, 40, 53, 65, 186
in Poems (1786), 71–4, 77–9in songs, 110–11in ‘Tam o’Shanter’, 151, 175in ‘Th e Whistle’, 163
Poetical Sketches, 75see also Wordsworth, William
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‘Polemo-Middinia’, see Drummond of Haw-thornden, William
Pope, Alexander, 14, 163‘Eloisa to Abelard’, 100‘Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate
Lady’, 68‘Messiah, Th e’, 91‘Rape of the Lock, Th e’, 163, 165
popular songs, 4, 46, 118postcolonial approaches to Scottish litera-
ture, 9, 17–20predestination, 33, 62, 171Prelude, Th e, 80, 88, 106
see also Wordsworth, WilliamPurdie, Robert, 126–7
Th e Rambler, 91Ramsay, Allan, 11, 18, 59, 63, 91
Th e Gentle Shepherd, 11–12Scots Proverbs, 186–88
‘Rashes, Th e’ ( Jacobite-related air), 133 Redgauntlet, 109
see also Scott, Sir WalterRegency Bill crisis (1788), 22, 139 Rich, Adrienne, 88Richmond, John, 14, 39, 50Ricks, Christopher, 77, 93Riddell, Maria, 94Riddell, Robert, 23, 162–6‘Rob Burness’ persona, 3–5, 27, 30, 48–50,
57, 186in early manuscripts, 29–30, 32, 40–1,
44, 53–5in Poems (1786), 65, 67, 69, 71–3, 79,
106Robertson, Margaret, 139Rogers, Charles, 132, 147Rodgers, Hugh, 90Ross, Alexander, 12, 77Ross, Marlon B., 23
Satan, 62, 64, 66,168–72Milton’s Satan in PL, 13, 53, 111see also ‘Address to the Deil’, under Burns,
Robert, poems and songs‘Scotch Poems’, see Kilmarnock ManuscriptScots Musical Museum, Th e, 54, 89, 115,
120–1, 126Burns as contributor, coeditor, 27, 128
Burns’s notes in, 112‘Farewell to the Highlands’ in, 109,
112–13, 115, 116see also Burns, Robert, poems and songs
‘Hey tutie tatey’ in, 141–2see also Burns, Robert, poems and songs
‘Highland balou, Th e’ in, 118–19see also Burns, Robert, poems and songs
Law manuscript, 112, 142‘Tam Lin’ in, 47
see also Burns, Robert, poems and songs‘Strong Walls of Derry’ (traditional) in,
112see also Johnson, James
Scott, Sir Walter, 9, 125, 128, 185see also Redgauntlet and Waverley
Scottish Enlightenment, 18–19Scottish National Party, 142Scrutiny, see Leavis, F.R. and Queenie D.Second Commonplace Book (Edinburgh), 142Seditious Meetings Act (1795), 118Select Collection, Th e, see Th omson, GeorgeShakespeare, William, 7, 29, 63, 111, 185
Julius Caesar, 187–9‘Shawnboy’ (air), 139Scheherazade (1001 Nights), 155Shelley, Percy, 27Shenstone, William, 6, 40, 82–3, 89
‘Th e Schoolmistress’, 90, 92Sharpe, Charles, 24Shiach, Morag, 23‘Sir Andrew Barton’ (ballad), 164‘Sir Patrick Spens’ (ballad), 101Skoblow, Jeff rey, 91, 152slavery, 25, 141, 145, 187, 189, 199
in Jamaica, 36–8, 70, 111see also ‘Address to the Deil’, under
Burns, Robert, poems and songssee also Douglass, Fredericksee also ‘Scots Wha Hae’, under Burns,
Robert, poems and songssee also ‘Th e Slave’s Lament’, under
Burns, Robert, poems and songsSmith, Adam, 9, 19, 41Smith, Barbara Herrnstein, 10Smith, G. Gregory, 151–2, 157Smith, George, 54Smith, James, 13, 53, 76, 104
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Smollett, Tobias, 9, 17–18Sneddon, David, 50, 52Sommers, Th omas, 160sorner (beggar), 119Spectator, Th e, 91
see also Addison, JosephSpenserian stanza-form, 47, 51, 56, 59, 90Speirs, John, 9Spivak, Gayatri, 15, 17–18Stair Manuscript, 49standard Habbie in Burns, 46, 51–4, 61–2,
65, 104 in Fergusson, 29, 53, 61–2, 158in Wordsworth, 80, 88, 104, 106
Staff ord, Fiona, 77Stephen, Leslie, 23Sterne, Laurence, 60, 69Stevenson, Robert Louis, 12–13, 160‘Strong Walls of Derry’ (trad. song), 113–14,
123Stuart, Charlotte, Duchess of Albany, 122Syllepsis in Burns, 62, 153, 163
Talbot, Colonel, 119see also Scott, Sir Walter, Waverley
Tarbolton, 20, 42, 60, 70, 154–5Th omson, George, 21–2, 120, 128, 135
see also Select CollectionTh omson, James, 6, 82, 87, 89–92 Th omson, Margaret, 7, 56, 70, 173–5To the Lighthouse, see Woolf, VirginiaTreasonable and Seditious Practices Act
(1795), 118Tristram Shandy, see Laurence SterneTrue Loyalist, Th e, 137–9, 146Truth, Sojourner, 25
Union of Parliaments, 17
Virgil, 91 Aeneid, 163, 167–8, 176
Vindication of the Rights of Woman, A, see Wollstonecraft , Mary
Walkinshaw, Clementina, 122Warton, Th omas, 56, 64, 78‘Waulking Song, A’, see Alexander
MacDonaldWaverley, 109–10, 118–19, 128, 130, 138
see also Scott, Sir WalterWeston, John C., 90Whitman, Walt, 2, 88Williams, Helen Maria, 25Williams, Raymond, 12–13Wilson, Hugh, 54Wilson, John (Dr Hornbook), 166Wilson, John (printer), 30, 32, 56 Wilson, Robert (suitor of Jean Armour),
31–2Wollstonecraft , Mary, 25Woolf, Virginia, 15Wordsworth, Dorothy, 4, 75, 85, 88,
94–5,105Wordsworth, William, 4, 6, 13, 14, 111, 189
ambivalence about Burns, 26, 75, 83, 93, 94–5, 98
Burns poems echoed in Wordsworth‘A Bard’s Epitaph’, 5‘Despondency’, 68‘Lament, Th e’, 99 ‘Man Was Made to Mourn’, 27, 68‘Tam o’Shanter’, 158–9, 166, 171‘Tam Samson’s Elegy’, 97–8‘Th e Vision’, 5, 77, 80–7, 96, 99–100‘To a Mountain Daisy’, 5, 95–6
see also under Burns, Robert, poems and songs
Burnsworth persona, 75–6, 84, 87–8, 104, 107
diction, 11, 75, 76–7, 89elements in Burns admired by, 3, 5–6, 68,
73, 76–7, 83 fi rst encounter with Burns’s Poems
(1786), 58, 65, 75, 79, 80–1,106Leech Gatherer, 85, see also ‘Resolution
and Independence’‘Letter to a Friend of Robert Burns’, 77,
94, 159shorter poems:
‘At the Grave of Burns’, 80, 105–6, 107‘Benjamin the Waggoner’, 76, 88‘Hart Leap Well’, 106‘If thou indeed derive thy light’, 77, 80 ‘Lines in Early Spring’, 87‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality’, 5,
76, 86, 100–2, 140 ‘Poet’s Epitaph, A’, 104–5
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‘Resolution and Independence’, 76, 79, 81, 83–7, 104–5, 107
‘Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman’, 76, 97–8
‘Tintern Abbey’, 88, 106‘“Th ere!” said a Stripling’, 76, 95‘Th ere was a boy’, 106‘Th oughts Suggested the Day Follow-
ing’, 76, 93
‘To the Sons of Burns’, 76, 88, 96, 100‘Written in a Blank Leaf of Macpher-
son’s Ossian’, 98–9see also Th e Prelude
poets as stars, 80–4 Rydal Mount, 81suppresses Burns’s social dimension, 87–8visits Dumfries, 93, 96
Young, Edward, 48, 62, 100
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