Book
ROBERT BURNS: A DOCUMENTARY VOLUME
(2018)
Abstract
This volume in the long-established Dictionary of Literary Biography series collects primary source materials on Burns’s life, reading, and writing; contemporary descriptions of the places he lived; reviews and selected poetic responses; obituaries; and contextual material on such topics as Ayrshire agriculture, the duties of an excise officer, song-editing, and 1790’s radicalism. Along with over 300 documents and extracts, the book includes 34 manuscript facsimiles, 45 sidebars on special topics, 10 maps, and over 100 supporting illustrations. The link here is to the preface only, describing the book in more detail; the book itself is available in print, as an eBook, and online through Gale's Literature Resource Center.
Keywords
- Robert Burns,
- Scottish poetry,
- Scottish song,
- Eighteenth-century Scotland,
- Scottish publishing
Disciplines
Publication Date
October 15, 2018
Publisher
Gale: A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book
ISBN
978-0-7876-9658-0
Citation Information
Patrick Scott. ROBERT BURNS: A DOCUMENTARY VOLUME. DetroitVol. 383 (2018) p. i - 508 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/patrick_scott/352/