Article
'We'll not forget THE PEOPLE': The Roy Manuscript of Burns's 'The Dumfries Volunteers'
Studies in Scottish Literarure
(2022)
Abstract
A brief illustrated report on an early manuscript of Burns's song "The Dumfries Volunteers ("Does haughty Gaul invasion threat"), now in the Roy Collection, University of South Carolina Libraries, originally sent by Burns to the editor of the Dumfries Journal, and published there on May 5, 1795, but unavailable to Kinsley and other recent editors.
Keywords
- Scottish poetry,
- Scottish militia,
- Burns manuscripts,
- Burns and reform Burns and politics
Disciplines
Publication Date
January 12, 2022
Citation Information
Patrick Scott. "'We'll not forget THE PEOPLE': The Roy Manuscript of Burns's 'The Dumfries Volunteers'" Studies in Scottish Literarure Vol. 47 Iss. 2 (2022) p. 135 - 146 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/patrick_scott/407/