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The best laid schemes : selected poetry and prose of Robert Burns / edited by Robert Crawford and Christopher MacLachlan

Author
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796
Published
Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2009.
Physical Description
xxxvii, 271 pages ; 24 cm
Additional Creators
Crawford, Robert, 1959- and MacLachlan, C. J. M.

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Contents
Poems -- My Father was a Farmer -- To Ruin -- The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie, The Author's Only Pet Yowe, An Unco Mournfu' Tale -- Poor Mailie's Elegy -- Mary Morison -- On a Noisy Polemic -- For the Author's Father -- A Fragment. [When Guilford Good our Pilot Stood] -- Address to the Unco Guid, or the Rigidly Righteous -- O Leave Novels -- Green Grow the Rashes. A Fragment -- Epistle to Davie, A Brother Poet -- Holy Willie's Prayer -- Death and Doctor Hornbook. A True Story -- Epistle to J. L[aprai]k, An Old Scotch Bard -- The Vision -- To a Mouse -- The Holy Fair -- The Twa Dogs, A Tale -- The Cotter's Saturday Night -- Address to the Deil -- Brose and Butter -- To a Louse -- A Cantata. [Love and Liberty or The Jolly Beggars] -- On a Scotch Bard Gone to the West Indies -- To the Author. [Second Epistle to Davie] -- [Lines Written on a Bank of Scotland One Guinea Note] -- [Address of Beelzebub] -- A Dream -- The Brigs of Ayr. A Poem -- The Northern Lass -- Address to Edinburgh -- To a Haggis -- A Fragment. [There was a Lad] -- [Inscribed around Fergusson's Portrait] -- [Lines on Fergusson] -- Written by Somebody on the Window of an Inn at Stirling on Seeing the Royal Palace in Ruins -- Ca' the Ewes to the Knowes [First Version] -- I Love My Jean -- O, Were I on Parnassus Hill -- Tam Glen -- Auld Lang Syne -- Louis What Reck I by Thee -- Robin Shure in Hairst -- Nine Inch Will Please a Lady -- Afton Water -- [Epistle to Dr Blacklock] -- On Captn. Grose's present peregrinations through Scotland collecting the antiquities of that kingdom -- My Love She's but a Lassie Yet -- My Heart's in the Highlands -- John Anderson my Jo -- Tam o'Shanter. A Tale -- The Banks o' Doon -- Ae Fond Kiss -- Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation -- The De'il's Awa wi' th' Exciseman -- Highland Mary -- The Rights of Woman -- Why Should Na Poor People Mow -- Whistle & I'll Come to You My Lad -- Ode [for General Washington's Birthday] -- Bruce to his Troops on the Eve of the Battle of Bannock-burn -- Act Sederunt o' the Court o' Session -- A Red Red Rose -- Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes [Second Version] -- For a' that & a' that -- The Dumfries Volunteers -- The Heron Ballads I -- To the Tooth-Ach -- [Oh Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast] -- The Solemn League and Covenant -- The Selkirk Grace -- Tam Lin -- Comin thro' the Rye -- Charlie He's my Darling -- The Trogger -- The Tree of Liberty -- Rediscovered Poems -- The Rediscovered Poems in this Book -- Logie o' Buchan -- I Courted a Lassie -- My Steps Fate on a Mad Conjuncture Thrust -- Here is to the king, Sir -- Tho' Life's Gay Scenes Delight No More -- Prose -- Five Extracts from Burns's First Commonplace Book, 1783-85 -- Preface [To Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, 1786] -- Dedication [To Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, 1787] -- Extract from Burns's Journal of his Border Tour -- Letter to Dr John Moore, 2 August 1787 -- Letter to Agnes McLehose, 19 January 1788 -- Letter to Agnes McLehose, 25 January 1788 -- Letter to Robert Ainslie, 3 March 1788 -- Extract from a Letter to Burns from Agnes McLehose -- Letter to Dr John Moore, 4 January 1789 -- Extract from a Letter to Mrs Frances Dunlop of Dunlop, 12 January 1795 -- Letter to James Armour, 10 July 1796.
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0691142955 (pbk.)
9780691142951 (pbk.)
0691142947 (hardcover)
9780691142944 (hardcover)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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