INDEX

INDEX

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.
Eneid (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,

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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; south-
ern tour, 50; Highland tours, 50-51; Mrs. McLehose,
52-58; marriage, 55; Ellisland, 58-62; Excise, 61-65;
Dumfries, 62-68; politics, 63-65; work for Johnson
and Thomson, 65-66, 91-98; whisky, 66-67, 313; ill-
ness 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.

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.