Understanding Robert Burns : Verse, Explanation and Glossary,9781903238486

Understanding Robert Burns : Verse, Explanation and Glossary

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9781903238486
ISBN10: 190323848X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-08-01
Publisher(s): Interlink Pub Group Inc
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Author Biography

George Scott Wilkie became a fan of Burns as a Leith schoolboy and has retained this interest throughout adult life. He is retired and lives in a riverside village near Cambridge

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Introduction ix
Handsome Nell
1(2)
O Tibbie. I Hae Seen The Day
3(2)
The Rigs O' Barley
5(2)
The Lass of Cessnock Banks
7(2)
A Prayer in the Prospect of Death
9(1)
I'll Go and Be A Sodger
10(1)
John Barleycorn: A Ballad
11(2)
The Death and Dying Wishes of Poor Mailie
13(3)
Poor Mailie's Elegy
16(2)
Remorse
18(1)
The Ruined Farmer
19(2)
Mary Mottison
21(1)
Address to the Unco Guid
22(2)
The Ronalds of the Bennals
24(3)
The Belles of Mauchline
27(1)
Epistle to John Rankine
28(3)
The Twa Herds; Or, the Holy Tulzie
31(4)
Holy Willies Prayer
35(4)
Epistle to J Lapraik
39(5)
Death and Doctor Hornbook
44(7)
Second Epistle to J Lapraik
51(4)
Welcome to A Bastart Wean
55(2)
The Fornicator
57(2)
The Vision
59(10)
Man Was Made To Mourn - A Dirge
69(3)
Young Peggy
72(2)
To A Mouse
74(2)
Epistle to the Rev John Mcmath
76(4)
The Holy Fair
80(9)
The Twa Dogs
89(11)
The Cotter's Saturday Night
100(8)
Halloween
108(10)
The Auld Farmer's New-Years Morning Salutation to His Auld Mare, Maggie
118(4)
Scotch Drink
122(6)
To A Louse
128(2)
Love And Liberty - A Cantata
130(13)
The Lass O' Ballochmyle
143(2)
Adam Armour's Prayer
145(2)
The Inventory
147(3)
To A Mountain Daisy
150(2)
Second Epistle to Davie
152(2)
Epistle to a Young Friend
154(3)
Lines Written on a Banknote
157(1)
The Farewell
158(2)
Reply To Trimming Epistle Received From a Tailor
160(3)
My Highland Lassie, O
163(2)
Epigram on Rough Roads
165(1)
To an Old Sweetheart
166(1)
The Gloomy Night Is Gathring Fast
167(2)
On Meeting With Lord Daer
169(2)
Address to Edinburgh
171(3)
Address to a Haggis
174(3)
Elegy on the Death of Robert Ruisseaux
177(1)
The guidwife of Wauchope House, to Robert Burns, the Airshire Bard
178(2)
The Guid Wife of Wauchope House, the Answer
180(3)
To Mr Mcadam of Craigen-Gillan
183(2)
Lament For the Absence of William Creech
185(3)
Sonnet on William Creech
188(1)
Bonie Dundee
189(1)
To Symon Gray
190(1)
On Scaring Some Water-Fowl in Loch Turit
191(2)
Epitaph for William Michie
193(1)
Where, Braving Winter's Angry Storms
194(1)
Ca the Yowes to The Knowes
195(1)
I'm O'er Young to Marry Yet
196(1)
O' That I Were Where Helen Lies
197(2)
The Birks of Aberfeldie
199(1)
A Rose-Bud By My Early Walk
200(1)
Clarinda, Mistress of My Soul
201(1)
Verses to Clarinda
202(1)
Rattlin, Roarin Willie
203(1)
Of A' The Airts the Wind Can Blaw
204(1)
Banks of Nith
205(1)
Tam Glen
206(2)
Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson
208(5)
A Mother's Lament
213(1)
Auld Lang Syne
214(2)
A Sonnet Upon Sonnets
216(1)
The Blue-Eyed Lassie
217(1)
The Silver Tassie
218(1)
Afton Water
219(1)
Kirk and State Excisemen
220(1)
The Wounded Hare
221(1)
The Kirk's Alarm
222(6)
Beware O' Bonie Ann
228(1)
John Anderson, My Jo
229(1)
Scots Prologue for Mrs Sutherland
230(3)
On The Birth of a Posthumous Child
233(2)
The Gowden Locks of Anna
235(2)
Lament of Mary Queen of Scots
237(2)
The Selkirk Grace
239(1)
Tam O' Shanter
240(9)
To the Memory of the Unfortunate Miss Burns
249(1)
The Banks O' Doon
250(1)
On Glenriddell's Fox Breaking His Chain
251(3)
Hughie Graham
254(2)
Thou Gloomy December
256(1)
Ae Fond Kiss
257(1)
Bonie Wee Thing
258(1)
Geordie - an Old Ballad
259(3)
Bessy and Her Spinnin-Wheel
262(2)
Country Lassie
264(2)
Willie Wastle
266(2)
Such A Parcel of Rogues in A Nation
268(1)
The Slave's Lament
269(1)
The Deil's Awa Wi' Th' Exciseman
270(1)
Highland Mary
271(2)
The Rights of Woman
273(2)
The Lea-Rig
275(1)
The Tree of Liberty
276(3)
Jessie
279(1)
On The Commemoration of Rodney's Victory
280(1)
The Soldier's Return
281(3)
Meg O' the Mill
284(1)
Whistle An I'll Come to You, My Lad
285(1)
Scots Wha Hae
286(1)
My Luve Is Like A Red,Red Rose
287(1)
Behold The Hour, The Boat Arrive
288(1)
You're Welcome, Willie Stewart
289(1)
A Man's A Man For A That
290(2)
The Dumfries Volunteers
292(2)
How Cruel Are The Parents
294(1)
Address To The Toothache
295(2)
The Toad-eater
297(1)
On Marriage
298(1)
Charlie, He's My Darling
299(1)
The Lass That Made the Bed to Me
300(2)
Had I the Wyte
302(2)
For The Sake O' Somebody
304(1)
Gude Wallace
305(3)
The Henpecked Husband
308(1)
Inscription to Miss Jessie Lewars
309(1)
Index of first lines 310

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