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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

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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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