INDEX

A B C D E F G H I J K L M

N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A Man's a Man for a' That, quoted 158, 317.

A Red, Red Rose, 101, quoted 102.

Address to the Deil, 38, 86, 281, quoted 282.

Address to the Unco Guid, 38, quoted 176, 189.

Adventures of Telemachus, 17.

Ae Fond Kiss, quoted 56-57, 75, 103.

Æneid (Douglas's), 268.

Afton Water, quoted 116.

Ainslie, Robert, 50.

Alloway, 4 ff.

Animals, Burns's feeling for, 270, 271.

Armour, James, 35, 37-39.

Armour, Jean, 35-39, 50, 55, 93, 110, 122, 172.

Arnold, Matthew, 206, 237.

Auld Lang Syne, 98, quoted 100.

Auld Lichts, 179, 180, 184, 188.

Auld Rob Morris, 115, quoted 121.

Bachelor's Club, 22.

Bannocks o' Barley, quoted 165.

Bard's Epitaph, A, 294, quoted 308.

Beattie, 86.

Beethoven, 95.

Begbie, Ellison, 22-23, 27, 110.

Bessy and Her Spinnin'-Wheel, quoted 145.

Biography, Official, 68.

Blacklock, Doctor, 39.

Blair, Doctor, 45, 86.

Blair Athole, 51.

Boar's Head Tavern, 240.

Bonnie Lesley, 115, quoted 118.

Braw Braw Lads, quoted 140.

Brow-on-Solway, 67.

Browning, 320.

Burnes, William, 3-8.

Burns, Agnes (Brown), 4, 8.

Burns, Gilbert, 5-6, 15, 31, 59, 90.

Burns, Robert, his career: autobiographical letter, 1-2; parentage and early life, 3-23; schooling, 5-8, 15, 17; reading, 6-8, 18-19; study of French, 16; folk-lore, 18; overwork, 19; first song, 20; flax-dressing, 23; early love-affairs, 22, 27; Mossgiel, 31-44; Elizabeth Paton, 32-35; Jean Armour, 35-36; Mary Campbell (Highland Mary), 36-37; West Indian project, 37-39; Elizabeth Miller, 37; Kilmarnock edition, 37-38; disciplined by the church, 38-39; Edinburgh, 44-56; early reviews, 46; Edinburgh edition, 46-50; southern tour, 50; Highland tours, 50-51; Mrs. McLehose, 52-58; marriage, 55; Ellisland, 53-62; Excise, 61-65; Dumfries, 62-68; politics, 63-65; work for Johnson and Thomson, 65-66, 91-98; whisky, 66-67, 313; illness and death, 66-67.

Burns and music, 9 ff.

Burns's method of composition, 87, 92, 111-112.

Burns's stanza, 80.

Ca' the Yowes, quoted 115.

Campbell, Mary, 36-37, 76, 112. See Highland Mary.

Canterbury Tales, 254.

Chalmers, Margaret, 110.

Charlie He's My Darling, quoted 168.

Chaucer, 254.

Chloris (Jean Lorimer), 110, 112.

Choice Collection (Watson's), 81.

Clarinda (Mrs. McLehose), 52-58.

Clarinda, quoted 58, 75, 109.

Cockburn, Mrs., 82.

Coleridge, 321.

Come Boat Me O'er to Charlie, quoted 163.

Comin' through the Rye, quoted 154.

Complete Letter-Writer, 6.

Contented wi' Little, quoted 126.

Conviviality, 66, 313.

Corn Rigs, 75.

Cowper, 267, 317.

Crabbe, 267.

Craigieburn-wood, 111.

Creech, 45, 50, 52.

Currie, Doctor, 68.

Dalrymple, James, 44.

Dalrymple School, 15.

Davidson, Betty, 18.

Death and Doctor Hornbook, quoted 287.

Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie, 80, 82.

Dedication to Gavin Hamilton, 185-186.

Descriptive poetry, 206 ff., 264 ff.

Dick, J.C., 91-92, note.

Dodsley, Robert, 103.

Douglas, Gavin, 268.

Dramatic lyrics, 128 ff.

Drummond of Hawthornden, 72.

Dumfries, 50, 62-68.

Dunbar, William, 81, 241, 316.

Duncan Davison, quoted 153.

Duncan Gray, quoted 152.

Dunlop, Mrs. 110.

Edinburgh, Burns in, 44-56.

Edinburgh Magazine, 46.

Elegies, 294 ff.

Elegy on Capt. Matthew Henderson, quoted 298.

Ellisland, 58-62.

English poems of Burns, 73 ff.

Epigrams, 204, 205.

Epistle to a Young Friend, 199, quoted 200.

Epistle to Davie, 79, quoted 193, 267.

Epistle to James Smith, 190, 191.

Epistle to John Goldie, 179.

Epistle to John Rankine, 33.

Epistle to McMath, 181.

Epistle to William Simpson, 270.

Epistles, 38, 190 ff.

Epitaphs, 204, 205.

Erskine, Hon. Henry, 45.

Excise service, 59, 61-65.

Farmer's Ingle, 84.

Ferguson, Dr. Adam, 46.

Fergusson, Robert, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 316.

Fisher, William, 173.

Flax-dressing experiment, 23.

Flint, Christina, 93.

For the Sake o' Somebody, quoted 136.

Freemasons, 46.

French Revolution, 63-64.

From thee, Eliza, I must go, 37.

Gaelic, 69.

Gibson, Nancy, 239.

Glencairn, Lord, 45, 49.

Glenriddel Manuscript, 60.

Go Fetch to me a Pint o' Wine, quoted 88.

Goethe, 320.

Goldsmith, 86.

Gordon, Duchess of, 45, 48.

Graham of Fintry, 64.

Gray, 86.

Green Grow the Rashes, quoted 123.

Grose, Captain, 253.

Had I the Wyte?, quoted 148.

Halloween, 38, 208, quoted 209, 217, 218, 223, 270, 282.

Hamilton, Gavin, 38, 172, 185.

Hamilton of Gilbertfield, 81, 82.

Handsome Nell: quoted 20; criticized by Burns, 21-22, 103.

Happy Beggars, 238.

Haydn, 95.

Henderson, Captain Matthew, 294.

Henryson, Robert, 78, 81, 272, 316.

Heroic couplet in Burns, 268, 269.

Highland Mary, quoted 113-116.

Highland Mary, 36-37, 76, 110.

History of the Bible, 6.

Hogg, James, 162.

Holy Willie's Prayer, 38, quoted 173.

How Lang and Dreary, quoted 138.

Humble Petition of Bruar Water, 51.

Hume, David, 44.

I Gaed a Waefu' Gate, quoted 117.

I Hae a Wife, quoted 59, 103.

I Hae Been at Crookieden, quoted 167.

I'm Owre Young to Marry Yet, quoted 143.

Independence, Scottish love of, 311.

Irvine, 23.

It Was a' for our Rightfu' King, quoted 162.

Jacobite Songs, 161 ff.

Jacobitism, 63.

John Anderson, my Jo, 145, quoted 146.

Johnson, James, 65, 91, 94, 97, 98, 316.

Kenmure's On and Awa, quoted 165.

Kilmarnock Edition. 37-39.

Kilpatrick, Nelly, 20, 22, 110.

Kirk of Scotland, Opposition to, 171.

Kirkoswald, 17, 254.

Kirkyard Eclogues, 84.

Knox, John, 71.

Kozeluch, 95.

La Fontaine, 272.

Laddie Lie Near Me, 92.

Lament for the Earl of Glencairn, 49.

Language of Burns, 69 ff.

Lassie wi' the Lint-white Locks, quoted 119.

Last Dying Words of Bonny Heck, 82.

Last May a Braw Wooer, quoted 135.

Last Speech of a Wretched Miser, 83.

Leith Races, 84.

Lewars, Jessie, 110, 122.

Lindesay, Sir David, 71.

Lindsay, Lady Anne, 82.

Lochlea, 5 ff.

London Monthly Review, 46.

Lorimer, Jean (Chloris), 110, 111.

Lounger, The, 46.

Lowland Scots, 69 ff.

Lucky Spence's Last Advice, 82.

Mackenzie, Henry, 19, 45, 46, 86.

Macpherson's Farewell, quoted 150.

McGill, Doctor, 186.

McLehose, Mrs., 52-58.

Mary Morison, quoted 28.

Mauchline, 31, 50.

Merry Beggars, 238.

Miller, Elizabeth, 37.

Milton, 85.

Montgomerie's Peggy, quoted 120.

Montgomery, Alexander, 79, 316.

Moore, Dr. John: 5; letter to, 1-2, 18, 83.

Mossgiel, 31-44.

Mount Oliphant, 4-5.

Murdoch, John, 5, 15-17, 90-91.

Murray, Sir William, 51.

Muse, jocular treatment of his, 203 ff.

Music, Burns's knowledge of, 90 ff.

Music and song, 169-170, 322.

My Father was a Farmer, quoted 126.

My Heart's in the Highlands, quoted 140.

My Love She's but a Lassie Yet, 141, quoted 144.

My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose, 101, quoted 102.

My Nannie's Awa, quoted 57-58, 75, 103, 266.

My Nannie O, quoted 29-30, 103.

My Wife's a Winsome Wee Thing, quoted 108.

Nairne, Lady, 162.

Nature in Burns, 318.

New Lichts, 179, 188.

Nicol, William, 50, 52.

O, For Ane an' Twenty, Tam!, quoted 129.

O Merry Hae I Been, quoted 148.

O This is No my Ain Lassie, quoted 107.

O, Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast, 122, quoted 123.

Of a' the Airts, quoted 106.

On a Scotch Bard, Gone to the West Indies, quoted, 42-44.

On Seeing a Wounded Hare, 86.

Open the Door to me, O! quoted 137.

Park, Anne, 110.

Paton, Elizabeth, 32.

Peasant characteristics of Burns, 311, 312.

Percy, Bishop, 81.

Planestanes and Causey, 84.

Pleyel, 95.

Politics, 63-65.

Poor Mailie's Elegy, quoted 26-27.

Poortith Cauld, 106, quoted 107.

Poosie Nansie, 239.

Pope, 86, 269.

Practical Essay on the Death of Jesus Christ, 186.

Prayer in the Prospect of Death, quoted 32.

Ramsay, Allan, 79, 81, 82, 83, 84, 99, 103, 238, 316.

Ramsay of Ochtertyre, 51.

Realism, 267.

Reformation, influence of, 95 ff.

Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, 81.

Richmond, 44.

Riddel, Col. Robert, 60.

Satires and Epistles, 171 ff.

Scenery in Burns, 265 ff.

Scotch Drink, 38, 84, 294, quoted 301.

Scots Musical Museum, 65, 95, 97.

Scots, Wha Hae, quoted 160.

Scott, Alexander, 79.

Scott, Sir Walter, 44, 46-48, 161-162.

Scottish Dialect, 69 ff.

Scottish Folk-song, 96 ff.

Scottish Literature, 78 ff.

Scottish Song, 90 ff.

Sea in Scottish poetry, 264-265.

Seasons, 318.

Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs, 95.

Sempills, 79, 80, 294, 316.

Shaftesbury, 193.

Shakespeare, 85, 321.

Shelley, 322.

Shenstone, 86.

Sibbald, James, 46.

Simmer's a Pleasant Time, quoted 131.

Smith, Adam, 44.

Sterne, 86, 270.

Stewart, Dugald, 45.

Stirling, Alexander, Earl of, 72.

Stuart-Menteath, Sir James, 93.

Tam Glen, quoted 133.

Tam o' Shanter, 253-257, quoted 257, 266, 268, 282.

Tam Samson's Elegy, quoted 294.

Tea Table Miscellany, 81, 99.

The Auld Farmer's New-Year Morning Salutation, quoted 278.

The Banks of Helicon, 79.

The Blue-eyed Lassie, quoted 117.

The Bonnie Lad that's Far Awa, quoted 139.

The Brigs of Ayr, 267.

The Cherry and the Slae, 79.

The Cotter's Saturday Night, quoted 8-15, 38, 74, 84, 190, criticized 207 ff., 219, 266.

The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie, quoted 23-25.

The Deil's Awa wi' th' Exciseman, quoted 154.

The Deuk's Dang o'er my Daddie, quoted 155.

The Gazetteer, 64.

The Gentle Shepherd, 82.

The Gloomy Night, quoted 40-41, 103.

The Highland Balou, 150, quoted 151.

The Highland Laddie, quoted 164.

The Holy Fair, 38, 84, 227, quoted 228.

The Jolly Beggars, 38, 77, 238-241, quoted 241, 266.

The Kirk's Alarm, 186, 187.

The Lass of Cessnock Banks, 23.

The Lea-Rig, quoted 120.

The Man of Feeling, 86.

The Ordination, 184, 185.

The Piper of Kilbarchan, 79.

The Poet's Welcome to his Love-begotten Daughter, quoted 33-35.

The Rantin' Dog the Daddie o't, quoted 134.

The Rigs o' Barley, quoted 30, 103.

The Twa Dogs, 4, 38, 84, quoted 219.

The Twa Herds, 180.

The Vision, 38.

The Weary Pund o' Tow, quoted 147.

There'll Never be Peace, quoted 166.

There was a Lad, quoted 125.

Thomson, George, 65, 88, 91, 92, 95, 98, 169, 316.

Thomson, James, 86, 318.

To a Haggis, 294, quoted 306.

To a Louse, 38, quoted 274.

To a Mountain Daisy, 38, 86, 190, quoted 276.

To a Mouse, 38, 86, 190, quoted 272.

To Daunton Me, quoted 142.

To Mary in Heaven, 76, quoted 114.

To the Deil, 38, 86, 281, quoted 282.

To the Guidwife of Wauchope House, 316.

To the Rev. John McMath, quoted 181.

To the Unco Guid, 38, quoted 176, 189.

Wallace, History of Sir William, 19.

Wandering Willie, quoted 138.

Watson, James, 81.

West Indies, 37-39.

Wha is that at my Bower Door?, quoted 156.

What Can a Young Lassie, quoted 142.

Whistle and I'll Come to Thee, my Lad, 75, quoted 132.

Will ye go to the Indies, my Mary, 37, quoted 40, 103.

Willie Brew'd a Peck o' Maut, 237, quoted 238.

Willie's Wife, quoted 156.

Wilson, John (Dr. Hornbook), 287.

Winter, a Dirge, 266.

Winter Night, A, 271.

Women, Burns and, 314, 315.

Wordsworth, 318, 319.

Ye Banks and Braes, quoted 130, 131.

Yestreen I had a Pint o' Wine, quoted 104-105, 110.

Young, Dr., 86.