Robert Burns

PREFACE INTRODUCTION NOTE ON THE TEXT Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Kilmarnock 1 Thomas Blacklock, letter to Rev. George Lawrie, September 1786 2 Unsigned notice in Edinburgh Magazine, October 1786 3 âAllan Ramsayâ and âG.H.â, correspondence in Edinburgh Evening Couranty November 1786 4 Henry Mackenzie, unsigned essay in Lounger, December 1786 5 James, unsigned review in Monthly Review, December 1786 6 Unsigned notice in New Annual Register, 1787 75 7 JOHN LOGAN, 1787 B Unsigned notice in Critical Review, May 1787 9 Hugh Blair, undated notes, 1787 10 James Macaulay in Edinburgh Evening Courant, June 1787 Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Edinburgh 1787 11 Unsigned notices in Universal Magazine, 1787 12 Unsigned notice in New Town and Country Magazine, August 1787 13 Unsigned notice in General Magazine and Impartial Review,1787 14 James Anderson, unsigned notice in Monthly Review, December 1787 15 William, letters to Samuel Rose, July and August 1787 16 Dorothy Wordsworth, letter to Jane Pollard, December 1787 17 Verse attack and verse tribute 18 A.F. Tytler, letter to Burns, March 1791 19 Robert Heron, Observations . . . in a Journey . . . , 1793 20 Joseph Ritson, Collection of Scottish Songs, 1794 21 George Thomson, an unsigned obituary notice in London Chronicle, July 1796 22 Maria Riddell, âcharacter sketchâ in Dumfries Journal, August 1796 23 Coleridge on Burns, 1796-1817 24 Lamb on Burns, 1796-1826 25 Thomas Duncan, letter, October 1796 26 Robert Heron, memoir in Monthly Magazine, June 1797 27 William Reid, from unsigned poem, 1797 28 Alexand er Campbell on Burns, 1798 and 1816 29 Wordsworth, letter to Coleridge, February 1799 30 James Currie, essay in The Works of Robert Burns . . . , 1800 31 Robert Nares, unsigned review in British Critic, October 1800 and April 1801 32 THOMAS STEWART, 1800 and 1801 Burns . . . , 1801 33 WILLIAM AND DOROTHY WORDSWORTH, 180 2-42 1 34 David Irving, from âThe life of Robert Burnsâ, 1804 35 Southey on Burns, 1804-5 36 Sir Egerton Brydges, in Cettsura Literaria, 1815 37 Thomas Moore, 1807 and 1841 38 Byron, from English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, 1809 R. H. Cromek, Reliques of Robert Burns, 1808 39 Francis Jeffrey, unsigned review in Edinburgh Review, January 1809 40 Walter Scott, unsigned review in Quarterly Review, February 1809 41 Unsigned review in Universal Magazine, February 1809 42 James Montgomery, unsigned review in Eclectic Review, May 1809 43 John Hodgson, unsigned review in Monthly Review, December 1809 44 Dorothy Wordsworth, letter to De Quincey, May 1809 45 Josiah Walker, from Account of the life . . . of Robert Burns, 1811 46 William Peebles, âBurns Renownedâ, 18 11 47 G . Gleig, from A Critique on the Poems of Robert Burns, 1812 48 HENRY CRABB Robinson, diary entries, 1812-29 49 Byron extracts from journal, 1813 50 Scott on Burns 1813-30 51 Alexander Peterkin, A Review of the Life of Robert Burns ...,with letters by gilbert burns and James g r a y, 1815 52 âThe memory of Bumsâ, Edinburgh Evening Courant, January 1816 53 Wordsworth on Bums, 1816 54 Jane Austen in Sanditon, 1817 55 John Wilson in Blackwood's Magazine, June 1817 56 Haziltt, from a lecture on Burns, 1818 57 Keats on Bums, 1818-19 58 J.G. Glockhart, from Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk, 1819 59 John Wilson in Blackwoodâs Magazine, February 1819 60 Thomas Campbell, Specimens of the British Poets..., 1819 61 Byron, letter to John Murray, February 1821 62 Hazlitt on Bums, 1821-5 63 Blackwood's Magazine on Burns, 1822 July 1822 64 Hew Ainslie, from Pilgrimage to the Land of Burns, 1822 65 ALLAN CUNNINGHAM on Burns, 1 824 and 1825 66 J.G Glockhart, Life of Robert Burns, 1828 67 Thomas Carlyle, unsigned review, Edinburgh Review, December 1828 68 Macaulay, unsigned review, Edinburgh Review, January 1828 69 âChristopher Northâ, from âNoctes Ambrosianaeâ, Blackwood's Magazine, 1829-34 70 Wordsworth, note on a poem of 1833, 1843 71 Allan Cunningham , from The Works of Robert Burns..., 1834 72 James Hogg, from Works of Robert Burns, 1836 73 Thomas de Quincey, in Taitâs Magazine, February 1837 74 J.G Whittier, from âBurns. On receiving a sprig of heather in blossomâ, 1840 75 RALPH WALDO EMERSON On Bums, 1840, 1859.