Robert Burns

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Works in ECPA

alphabetical listing / listing in source editions

• ADDRESS TO THE DEIL. ()
• ANOTHER. ()
• THE AULD FARMER'S NEW-YEAR-MORNING SALUTATION TO HIS AULD MARE, MAGGIE, ON GIVING HER THE ACCUSTOMED RIPP OF CORN TO HANSEL IN THE NEW-YEAR. ()
• THE AUTHOR'S EARNEST CRY AND PRAYER, TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE AND HONORABLE, THE SCOTCH REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. ()
• A BARD'S EPITAPH. ()
• THE COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT. INSCRIBED TO R. A****, Esq; ()
• THE DEATH AND DYING WORDS OF POOR MAILIE, THE AUTHOR'S ONLY PET YOWE, AN UNCO MOURNFU' TALE. ()
• A DEDICATION TO G**** H******* Esq; ()
• DESPONDENCY, AN ODE. ()
• A DREAM. ()
• EPIGRAM ON SAID OCCASION, ()
• EPISTLE TO A YOUNG FRIEND. ()
• EPISTLE TO DAVIE. A BROTHER POET. ()
• EPISTLE TO J. L*****K, AN OLD SCOTCH BARD. ()
• EPISTLE TO J. R******, ENCLOSING SOME POEMS. ()
• EPITAPH ON A HENPECKED COUNTRY SQUIRE. ()
• [EPITAPH] FOR G. H. Esq; ()
• [EPITAPH] FOR R. A. Esq; ()
• [EPITAPH] FOR THE AUTHOR'S FATHER. ()
• [EPITAPH] ON A CELEBRATED RULING ELDER. ()
• [EPITAPH] ON A NOISY POLEMIC. ()
• [EPITAPH] ON WEE JOHNIE. Hic jacet wee Johnie. ()
• THE FAREWELL. TO THE BRETHREN OF St. JAMES'S LODGE, TARBOLTON. ()
• HALLOWEEN. ()
• THE HOLY FAIR. ()
• THE LAMENT. OCCASIONED BY THE UNFORTUNATE ISSUE OF A FRIEND'S AMOUR. ()
• MAN WAS MADE TO MOURN, A DIRGE. ()
• ON A SCOTCH BARD GONE TO THE WEST INDIES. ()
• POOR MAILIE'S ELEGY. ()
• A PRAYER, IN THE PROSPECT OF DEATH. ()
• SCOTCH DRINK. ()
• SONG, COMPOSED IN AUGUST. ()
• SONG. ()
• SONG. ()
• TO A LOUSE, On Seeing one on a Lady's Bonnet at Church. ()
• TO A MOUNTAIN-DAISY, On turning one down, with the Plough, in April — 1786. ()
• TO A MOUSE, On turning her up in her Nest with the Plough, November, 1785. ()
• TO J. S****. ()
• TO RUIN. ()
• TO THE SAME. ()
• TO W. S*****N, OCHILTREE. ()
• THE TWA DOGS, A TALE. ()
• THE VISION. ()
• WINTER, A DIRGE. ()

• Burns, Robert, 1759-1796. POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT, BY ROBERT BURNS. Kilmarnock: printed by John Wilson, M,DCC,LXXXVI., 1786. 240p.; 8⁰. (ESTC T91548)
  • THE TWA DOGS, A TALE.
  • SCOTCH DRINK.
  • THE AUTHOR'S EARNEST CRY AND PRAYER, TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE AND HONORABLE, THE SCOTCH REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
  • THE HOLY FAIR.
  • ADDRESS TO THE DEIL.
  • THE DEATH AND DYING WORDS OF POOR MAILIE, THE AUTHOR'S ONLY PET YOWE, AN UNCO MOURNFU' TALE.
  • POOR MAILIE'S ELEGY.
  • TO J. S****.
  • A DREAM.
  • THE VISION.
  • HALLOWEEN.
  • THE AULD FARMER'S NEW-YEAR-MORNING SALUTATION TO HIS AULD MARE, MAGGIE, ON GIVING HER THE ACCUSTOMED RIPP OF CORN TO HANSEL IN THE NEW-YEAR.
  • THE COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT. INSCRIBED TO R. A****, Esq;
  • TO A MOUSE, On turning her up in her Nest with the Plough, November, 1785.
  • EPISTLE TO DAVIE. A BROTHER POET.
  • THE LAMENT. OCCASIONED BY THE UNFORTUNATE ISSUE OF A FRIEND'S AMOUR.
  • DESPONDENCY, AN ODE.
  • MAN WAS MADE TO MOURN, A DIRGE.
  • WINTER, A DIRGE.
  • A PRAYER, IN THE PROSPECT OF DEATH.
  • TO A MOUNTAIN-DAISY, On turning one down, with the Plough, in April — 1786.
  • TO RUIN.
  • EPISTLE TO A YOUNG FRIEND.
  • ON A SCOTCH BARD GONE TO THE WEST INDIES.
  • A DEDICATION TO G**** H******* Esq;
  • TO A LOUSE, On Seeing one on a Lady's Bonnet at Church.
  • EPISTLE TO J. L*****K, AN OLD SCOTCH BARD.
  • TO THE SAME.
  • TO W. S*****N, OCHILTREE.
  • EPISTLE TO J. R******, ENCLOSING SOME POEMS.
  • SONG.
  • SONG, COMPOSED IN AUGUST.
  • SONG.
  • THE FAREWELL. TO THE BRETHREN OF St. JAMES'S LODGE, TARBOLTON.
  • EPITAPH ON A HENPECKED COUNTRY SQUIRE.
  • EPIGRAM ON SAID OCCASION,
  • ANOTHER.
  • [EPITAPH] ON A CELEBRATED RULING ELDER.
  • [EPITAPH] ON A NOISY POLEMIC.
  • [EPITAPH] ON WEE JOHNIE. Hic jacet wee Johnie.
  • [EPITAPH] FOR THE AUTHOR'S FATHER.
  • [EPITAPH] FOR R. A. Esq;
  • [EPITAPH] FOR G. H. Esq;
  • A BARD'S EPITAPH.

Source editions

• Burns, Robert, 1759-1796. POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT, BY ROBERT BURNS. Kilmarnock: printed by John Wilson, M,DCC,LXXXVI., 1786. 240p.; 8⁰. (ESTC T91548)

Bibliography

DMI 1369; ODNB 4093; DLB 383; NCBEL 1979-2019

Manuscripts

• Smith, Margaret M. Index of English Literary Manuscripts. Vol. III, 1700-1800 . London: Mansell, 1986-1997. Pt. 1 Addison-Fielding. 93-[193]. Print. 4 volumes.

Editions

• Ferguson, J. De Lancey, and G. Ross Roy, eds. The Letters of Robert Burns. [Oxford:] Oxford University Press, 2014 [1st ed. 1985]. Print. 2 volumes.
• Kinsley, James, ed. The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014 [1st ed. 1968]. Print. 3 volumes.

Biography

• Mackay, James. A Biography of Robert Burns. Edinburgh: Mainstream Pub. Co., 1992. Print.

Reference works

• Baines, Paul, Julian Ferraro, Pat Rogers, eds. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing, 1660-1789. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 46-47. Print.
• Radcliffe, David H., ed. Robert Burns (1759-1796). Spenser and the Tradition: ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830. Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities, Virginia Tech, 2006. Web. 14 Oct. 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20170908014740/http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/AuthorRecord.php?recordid=33285.

Criticism

• Bold, Alan. A Burns Companion. Houndmills and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1991. Print.
• Brown, Mary Ellen. Burns and Tradition. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 [1st ed. 1984]. Print.
• Campbell, Ian. Burns's Poems and their Audience. Low, Donald A., ed. Critical Essays on Robert Burns. London and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975. 39-53. Print.
• Crawford, Robert, ed. Robert Burns and Cultural Authority. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1997. Print.
• Crawford, Thomas. Burns: A Study of the Poems & Songs. Glasgow: Humming Earth, 2009 [1st ed. Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd, 1960]. Print.
• Jack, R. D. S., and Andrew Noble, eds. The Art of Robert Burns. London: Vision, 1982. Print.
• McGuirk, Carol. Robert Burns and the Sentimental Era. Linton: Tuckwell Press, 1997 [1st ed. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985]. Print.
• McGuirk, Carol, ed. Critical Essays on Robert Burns. New York, etc.: G. K. Hall, 1998. Print.
• Morris, David. Burns and Heteroglossia. The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 28 (1987): 3-27. Print.
• Roe, Nicholas. Authenticating Robert Burns. Essays in Criticism 46 (1996): 195-218. Print.