The Canongate Burns. Robert Burns
Robert Burns’ in Keepers of the Flame: Literary Estates and the Rise of Biography (Boston/London: Faber & Faber, 1992), p. 101.
41 A Memoir of the Life of Robert Burns, p. 346.
42 Edinburgh University Library, Laing Collection, III, folio 586.
43 ‘The Frailties of Robert Burns’, p. 93.
44 Quoted in R.D. Thornton, James Currie: The Entire Stranger & Robert Burns (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1963), p. 358.
45 ‘The Frailties of Robert Burns’, p. 98.
46 ‘The Frailties of Robert Burns’, p. 101.
47 Low, The Critical Heritage, p. 431.
48 In 1793, Currie had written a Francophile, abrasively anti-Pitt pamphlet under the pseudonym, ‘Jasper Wilson’. In consequence he considered American exile and lived in terror of disclosure. See Chapter 9, ‘Dissenter’ in Thornton’s The Entire Stranger.
49 ‘The Frailties of Robert Burns’, p. 97.
50 Low, The Critical Heritage, p. 152.
51 Ibid., p. 144.
52 Andrew Noble, ‘Versions of Scottish Pastoral’ in Order in Space and Society: Architectural Form and Its Context in the Scottish Englightenment, ed. Thomas Marcus (Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1982), pp. 288–91.
53 Low, Critical Heritage, p. 194.
54 Ibid., pp. 186–7.
55 Ibid., p. 181.
56 Ibid., p. 182.
57 Ibid., p. 183.
58 Ibid., p. 183.
59 Ibid., pp. 183–4.
60 Ibid., p. 181.
61 Ibid., p. 180.
62 Ibid., p. 195.
63 While this, revealingly, was not published till 1842 it was written between 1793 and 1794. This is the Advertisement to Guilt and Sorrow or Incidents Upon Salisbury Plain. Poetical Works of Wordsworth (Oxford University Press, 1956), pp. 18–19.
64The Life and Works of Robert Burns, as originally ed. by James Currie, to which is prefixed a review of its life of Burns and of various criticisms of his character and writings (Edinburgh: Macredie, Skelly and Muckersy, 1815), p. vii.
65 Andrew Noble, ‘Burns and Scottish Nationalism’, in Burns Now (Edinburgh: Canongate Academic, 1994), pp. 167–92.
66 ‘The Burns Cult and Scottish Identity in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries’ in Love and Liberty, p. 72.
67 Patrick Kavanagh: Selected Poems (London: Penguin, 1996) pp. 70–1. While Moore was not of Burns’s militant spirit we are now also realising the degree to which his songs are coded expressions of the bloodier Irish political turmoil of the 1790s and arguably, an embryonic assertion of new national forces. See Matthew Campbell ‘Thomas Moore’s Wild Song: The 1821 Irish Melodies’. Bullán, Vol.v. No. 2, pp. 83–104.
68 Saul Bellow, ‘Mozart: An Overture’ in It All Adds Up (London, Secker and Warburg, 1994), pp. 9–10.
69 Matthew Arnold, Letter of November 1879, quoted in Selected Poems and Prose, ed. Miriam Allott (London: Everyman, 1991), p. 295.
70 Ibid., 262–3.
71 T.S. Eliot, ‘Was there a Scottish Literature?’, The Athenaeum, No. 4657, 1st Aug. 1919, pp. 680–1.
72 Letter 2315, The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. 7, ed. Booth and Mehew (Yale University Press, 1995). p. 110.
73 R.L. Stevenson ‘Review of The Poets and Poetry of Scotland’, ed. James Grant Wilson, The Academy, 12 Feb., 1876, p. 30.
74 Ibid., p. 31.
75 For Stevenson’s profound ambivalence to Burns see Letter 635, Vol. 1, The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson. In the same volume (Letter 424) there is a project for not only a book about Ramsay, Fergusson and Burns, but a book that would use Villon as context. He never really synthesised his Scottish roots with his Francophilia.
76 Edwin Muir, ‘Burns and Holy Willie’ in Edwin Muir: Uncollected Scottish Criticism (London/New York: Vision, 1982), pp. 189–90.
77 Ibid., pp. 191–2.
78 ‘Burns and Baudelaire’ in Hugh MacDiarmid: The Raucle Tongue, ed. Calder, Murray, Riach (Manchester: Carcanet, 1996), p. 69.
79 The Complete