Robert Burns: How To Know Him
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William Allan Neilson. Robert Burns: How To Know Him
Robert Burns: How To Know Him
Table of Contents
ROBERT BURNS
CHAPTER I. BIOGRAPHY
1. Alloway, Mount Oliphant, and Lochlea
THE COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT
HANDSOME NELL
THE DEATH AND DYING WORDS OF POOR MAILIE, THE AUTHOR'S ONLY PET YOWE
POOR MAILIE'S ELEGY
MARY MORISON
MY NANNIE O
THE RIGS O' BARLEY
2. Mossgiel
A PRAYER IN THE PROSPECT OF DEATH
THE POET'S WELCOME TO HIS LOVE-BEGOTTEN DAUGHTER
WILL YE GO TO THE INDIES, MY MARY?
THE GLOOMY NIGHT
ON A SCOTCH BARD, GONE TO THE WEST INDIES
3. Edinburgh
AE FOND KISS
MY NANNIE'S AWA
CLARINDA
4. Ellisland
I HAE A WIFE
5. Dumfries
CHAPTER II. INHERITANCE: LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
GO FETCH TO ME A PINT O' WINE
CHAPTER III. BURNS AND SCOTTISH SONG
AULD LANG SYNE
MY LOVE IS LIKE A RED RED ROSE
YESTREEN I HAD A PINT O' WINE
OF A' THE AIRTS
O THIS IS NO MY AIN LASSIE
POORTITH CAULD
MY WIFE'S A WINSOME WEE THING
HIGHLAND MARY
TO MARY IN HEAVEN
CA' THE YOWES (Second Version)
AFTON WATER
THE BLUE-EYED LASSIE
BONNIE LESLEY
LASSIE WI' THE LINT-WHITE LOCKS
MONTGOMERIE'S PEGGY
THE LEA-RIG
AULD ROB MORRIS
O, WERT THOU IN THE CAULD BLAST
GREEN GROW THE RASHES
THERE WAS A LAD
CONTENTED WI' LITTLE
MY FATHER WAS A FARMER
O FOR ANE AN' TWENTY, TAM!
YE BANKS AND BRAES (Second Version)
(Third Version)
SIMMER'S A PLEASANT TIME
WHISTLE, AND I'LL COME TO YE, MY LAD
TAM GLEN
THE RANTIN' DOG THE DADDIE O'T
LAST MAY A BRAW WOOER
FOR THE SAKE O' SOMEBODY
OPEN THE DOOR TO ME, O!
WANDERING WILLIE
HOW LANG AND DREARY
THE BONNIE LAD THAT'S FAR AWA
BRAW BRAW LADS
MY HEART'S IN THE HIGHLANDS
WHAT CAN A YOUNG LASSIE
TO DAUNTON ME
I'M OWRE YOUNG TO MARRY YET
MY LOVE SHE'S BUT A LASSIE YET
BESSY AND HER SPINNIN'-WHEEL
JOHN ANDERSON, MY JO
THE WEARY PUND O' TOW
O MERRY HAE I BEEN
HAD I THE WYTE?
MACPHERSON'S FAREWELL
THE HIGHLAND BALOU
DUNCAN GRAY
DUNCAN DAVISON
THE DE'IL'S AWA WI' TH' EXCISEMAN
COMIN' THROUGH THE RYE
THE DEUK'S DANG O'ER MY DADDIE
WHA IS THAT AT MY BOWER DOOR?
WILLIE'S WIFE
A MAN'S A MAN FOR A' THAT
SCOTS, WHA HAE. ROBERT BRUCE'S ADDRESS TO HIS ARMY, BEFORE THE BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURN
IT WAS A' FOR OUR RIGHTFU' KING
COME BOAT ME O'ER TO CHARLIE
THE HIGHLAND LADDIE
BANNOCKS O' BARLEY
KENMURE'S ON AND AWA
THERE'LL NEVER BE PEACE TILL JAMIE COMES HAME
I HAE BEEN AT CROOKIEDEN
CHARLIE HE'S MY DARLING
CHAPTER IV. SATIRES AND EPISTLES
HOLY WILLIE'S PRAYER
ADDRESS TO THE UNCO GUID, OR THE RIGIDLY RIGHTEOUS
TO THE REV. JOHN M'MATH
EPISTLE TO DAVIE, A BROTHER POET
EPISTLE TO A YOUNG FRIEND
ON JOHN DOVE, INNKEEPER
CHAPTER V. DESCRIPTIVE AND NARRATIVE POETRY
HALLOWEEN[4]
FOOT-NOTES TO HALLOWEEN
THE TWA DOGS
THE HOLY FAIR
WILLIE BREW'D A PECK O' MAUT
THE JOLLY BEGGARS. A Cantata
TAM O' SHANTER. A Tale
TO A MOUSE, ON TURNING HER UP IN HER NEST WITH THE PLOUGH, NOVEMBER, 1785
TO A LOUSE. On Seeing One on a Lady's Bonnet at Church
TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY. On Turning One Down With a Plough in April, 1786
THE AULD FARMER'S NEW-YEAR MORNING SALUTATION TO HIS AULD MARE, MAGGIE
ADDRESS TO THE DEIL
DEATH AND DOCTOR HORNBOOK
TAM SAMSON'S ELEGY
ELEGY ON CAPT. MATTHEW HENDERSON, A Gentleman Who Held the Patent for His Honours Immediately From Almighty God
SCOTCH DRINK
TO A HAGGIS
A BARD'S EPITAPH
CHAPTER VI. CONCLUSION
THE END. INDEX
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William Allan Neilson
Published by Good Press, 2019
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“Lest my works should be thought below Criticism; or meet with a Critic who, perhaps, will not look on them with so candid and favorable an eye; I am determined to criticise them myself.
“The first distich of the first stanza is quite too much in the flimsy strain of our ordinary street ballads; and on the other hand, the second distich is too much in the other extreme. The expression is a little awkward, and the sentiment too serious. Stanza the second I am well pleased with; and I think it conveys a fine idea of that amiable part of the Sex—the agreeables, or what in our Scotch dialect we call a sweet sonsy Lass. The third Stanza has a little of the flimsy turn in it; and the third line has rather too serious a cast. The fourth Stanza is a very indifferent one; the first line is, indeed, all in the strain of the second Stanza, but the rest is mostly an expletive. The thoughts in the fifth Stanza come fairly up to my favorite idea [of] a sweet sonsy Lass. The last line, however, halts a little. The same sentiments are kept up with equal spirit and tenderness in the sixth Stanza, but the second and fourth lines ending with short syllables hurts the whole. The seventh Stanza has several minute faults; but I remember I composed it in a wild enthusiasm of passion, and to this hour I never recollect it but my heart melts, and my blood sallies at the remembrance.”
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