CONTENTS


CHAPTER PAGE

I BIOGRAPHY 1
1. Alloway, Mount Oliphant, and Lochlea 3
2. Mossgiel 31
3. Edinburgh 44
4. Ellisland 58
5. Dumfries 62

II INHERITANCE: LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE 69

III BURNS AND SCOTTISH SONG 90

IV SATIRES AND EPISTLES 171

V DESCRIPTIVE AND NARRATIVE POETRY 206

VI CONCLUSION 310

INDEX 325




ROBERT BURNS