Article
"Fragments that Remain: 'A Verse by Burns,' the Tarbolton Bachelors' Club, and David Sillar's Manuscript Rules"
Burns Chronicle for 2017
(2016)
Abstract
Identifies two surviving fragments of David Sillar's manuscript rules for the Tarbolton Bachelors' Club, transcribes the two fragments of verse associated with them (one in Robert Burns's handwriting), and examines the evidence for Burns's authorship of one of these verse fragments.
Keywords
- Robert Burns,
- Scottish literature,
- Scottish poetry,
- Burns manuscripts,
- Burns attribution
Disciplines
Publication Date
December, 2016
Citation Information
Patrick G. Scott. ""Fragments that Remain: 'A Verse by Burns,' the Tarbolton Bachelors' Club, and David Sillar's Manuscript Rules"" Burns Chronicle for 2017 Vol. 126 (2016) p. 32 - 37 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/patrick_scott/312/