ESSAY ON BURNS

WITH

THE COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT

AND OTHER POEMS FROM BURNS

Edited with Notes and an Introduction

BY

WILLARD C. GORE
Professor of English Literature in the Armour Institute of

Technology, Chicago, Illinois

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.

1910

All rights reseroed

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

COPYRIGHT, 1900,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped August, 1900. Reprinted April 1902 ; January, August, 1903 ; February, October, 1904; July, 1905 ; March, July, 1906 ; February, July, 1908; July, 1909; January, 1910.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION :

Thomas Carlyle and Robert Burns

The Writings of Carlyle

The Text of the Essay on Burns

Original and Revised Versions of the Text.

Appreciations

References on Carlyle

ESSAY ON BURNS

1

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POEMS FROM BURNS :

The Cotter's Saturday Night

Man was made to Mourn

Prayer in Prospect of Death

My Father was a Farmer

The Farmer's Salutation to his Mare .

To a Mouse

The Wounded Hare

Poor Mailie's Elegy

A Winter Night .

Winter

To a Mountain Daisy .

Afton Water

The Banks of Doon

Duncan Gray

Auld Lang Syne .

Highland Mary

To Mary in Heaven

Ode to Memory of Mrs. Oswald .

My Nannie's Awa'

0, wert thou in the Cauld Blast?

John Anderson my Jo

Farewell to Ayr .

My Heart's in the Highlands

Macpherson's Farewell

Bannockburn

The Dumfries Volunteers

A Man's a Man for a' that .

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