Robert Burns

Robert Burns Criticism

• Burns, Robert (Vol. 29)
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • Poet of the Parish
    • Burns: A Mouse and a Louse
    • The Christis Kirk Tradition: Its Evolution in Scots Poetry to Burns, Part IV
    • Burns's Comedy of Romantic Love
    • Explaining the Obvious
    • Poet: Kilmarnock Edition
    • Robert Burns's Declining Fame
    • Don't Look Back: Something Might Be Gaining on You
    • Robert Burns
    • The Satires: Underground Poetry
    • Love and the Lassies
    • 'That Bards are Second-Sighted is Nae Joke': The Orality of Burns's World and Work
    • Burns and Narrative
    • 'Tam o' Shanter': The Truth of the Tale
    • Point of View in Some Poems of Burns
    • Spontaneity and the Strategy of Transcendence in Burns's Kilmarnock Verse-Epistles
    • Words, Music, and Emotion in the Love Songs of Robert Burns
    • Dialect and Diction in Burns
    • Robert Burns (1759-96)
  • Further Reading
• Burns, Robert (Vol. 40)
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • Robert Burns
    • The Background of Burns: Eighteenth-Century Scotland
    • The 'Annus Mirabilis,' 1785
    • Light from Heaven: Love in British Romantic Literature
    • The Language of Burns
    • The Early Period: Burns's Conscious Collecting of Folksongs
    • Burns and Philosophy
    • Robert Burns: 'Heaven-taught ploughman'?
    • Apotheosis
  • Further Reading