Robert Burns (1759-1796)

The son of an Ayrshire farmer, Robert Burns received some tutoring in literature while a boy. After failing as a farmer he was considered emigrating to seek his fortune, when, with some assistance from the blind poet Thomas Blacklock, his poems made him an instant celebrity. Burns enjoyed the attentions of the literati, toured Scotland, and returned to farming. He accepted a position as an excise-man, though his political views made government employment tenuous. In later years Burns devoted his literary labors to collecting, editing, and publishing traditional songs.

TEXT RECORDS:

1784Stanzas on the Same Occasion [in Prospect of Death].
1786The Cotter's Saturday Night.
1786The Vision.

PUBLICATIONS:

Poems chiefly in the Scottish dialect. 1786, 1787.
The Scots musical museum, ed. James Johnson. 6 vols, 1787-1803.
A select collection of original Scottish airs [ed. G. Thomson]. 4 vols, 1793-99.
Works, ed. James Currie. 4 vols, 1800.
Reliques of Robert Burns, ed. R. H. Cromek. 1808.
Works, ed. Allan Cunningham. 8 vols, 1834.
Letters, ed. J. De Lancy Ferguson. 2 vols, 1931.
Robert Burns's commonplace book 1783-85, ed. J. C. Ewing and D. Cook. 1938.
Poems, ed. James Kinsley. 3 vols, 1968.
Letters, ed. G. Ross Roy. 2 vols, 1985.

REFERENCE:

DNB; NCBEL; DLB.

Henry Mackenzie, in The Lounger (9 December 1786) 385-88; "Surprising effects of Original Genius" [from The Lounger] European Magazine 10 (December 1786) 461-63; "The Crier" in Felix Farley's Bristol Journal (7 July 1787); Catalogue of five hundred Celebrated Authors (1788); "Character of Burns" New York Magazine 4 (November 1793) 680-82; Roach's Beauties of the Poets (1794); obituary in Gentleman's Magazine 66 (August 1796) 703-04; "Some Account of Robert Burns, the Scottish Poet" European Magazine 30 (August, October 1796) 78-79, 266-30; "Some Account of Robert Burns" Edinburgh Magazine NS 8 (September 1796) 169-74; "Particulars of Mr. Burns" Aberdeen Magazine 1 (November 1796) 260-65; "Life and Writings of Robert Burns" Scots Magazine 59 (January 1797) 3-8; "Robert Burns" American Universal Magazine [Philadelphia] 1 (20 March 1797) 401-02; Robert Heron, "Memoirs of Robert Burns" Monthly Magazine 3 (March 1797 and supplement) 215-16, 552-62; "Account of Robert Burns" New York Magazine NS 2 (March 1797) 118-19; "Robert Burns" Universal Magazine 100 (June 1797) 412-13; Robert Heron, Memoirs of the Life of Burns (1797); Alexander Campbell, Introduction to the History of Poetry in Scotland (1798) 306-07; "Original Memoirs of Robert Burns" Philadelphia Monthly Magazine 1 (February-May 1798) 83-88, 197-205, 255-62; Life by James Currie in Works (1800); "Miscellaneous Remarks by Robert Burns" Universal Magazine 107 (September 1800) 176-78; "Observations on the Character and Writings of Burns" Edinburgh Magazine or Literary Miscellany NS 16 (November 1800) 450-55; "Memoirs of Burns" Scots Magazine 63 (October 1801) 663-65 [portrait]; "Remarks on the Life and Character of Burns" Scots Magazine 64 (February, April 1802) 131-33, 300-03; David Irving, Lives of the Scottish Poets (1804) 2:443-501; "Life of Burns" The Hive [Lancaster] (26 December 1804-16 January 1805); Samuel Egerton Brydges, "Traits of the Character of Burns" Censura Literaria 2 (1806) 42-64; Peter L. Courtier, ed., Lyre of Love (1806); "Character of Robert Burns" Literary Magazine and American Register [Philadelphia] 7 (July 1807) 429-38; "On Writing Poetry in the Scottish Dialect" Scots Magazine 69 (June 1807) 412-15; Samuel Jackson Pratt, Cabinet of Poetry (1808); Walter Scott, "Review of Cromek, Reliques of Robert Burns" Quarterly Review 1 (February 1809) 19-36; "Dialogue on the Character of Robert Burns" Belfast Monthly Magazine 3 (July 1809) 25-26; Alexander Chalmers, General Biographical Dictionary (1812-17); William Hazlitt, Lectures on the English Poets (1818); "Burns and the Ettrick Shepherd" Blackwood's Magazine 4 (February 1819) 521-29; "Monument for Burns" Edinburgh Magazine NS 5 (July 1819) 28-29; "Failure of Robert Burns as a Tragic Poet" New Bon Ton Magazine 3 (August 1819) 221-25; Thomas Campbell, Specimens of the British Poets (1819); "Influence of Scenery on Poetic Characters: Burns" London Magazine 4 (September 1821) 250-52; "Burns, Scott, Byron, and Campbell" Kaleidoscope NS 1 (27 February 1821) 273-74; "Essay on the Genius of Burns" European Magazine 82 (October 1822) 315-18; Joseph Robertson, Lives of Scottish Poets (1821-22); "Vindication of the Character of Robert Burns" The Minerva [New York] 2 (30 August 1823) 165; "Byron and Burns, or a Voice from Tartarus" Edinburgh Magazine NS 15 (December 1824) 699-702; Allan Cunningham, "Robert Burns and Lord Byron" London Magazine 10 (August 1824) 117-24; "Tributes to the Memory of Burns" Mirror of Literature 4 (1824) 104-06; William Hazlitt, Select British Poets (1824); Robert Watt, Bibliotheca Britannica (1824); Miss Spence, "Anecdotes of Burns" Literary Magnet NS 1 (1826) 12-13; Nathan Drake, "Chaucer, Dunbar, and Burns Compared" Mornings in Spring (1828) 2:1-36; John Gibson Lockhart, Life of Burns (1828); Anna Brownell Jameson, in Loves of the Poets (1829); Biographical Magazine 1 (1829) [portrait]; "Character of Robert Burns" Edinburgh Literary Journal (9 May 1829) 361-64; "Robert Burns" Ladies' Monthly Museum S4 (March 1829) 121-24 [portrait]; George B. Cheever, Studies in Poetry ... Elegant Extracts (1830); Robert Chambers, revised Thomson, Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen (1832-35; 1870); The Georgian Era: Memoirs of the most Eminent Persons (1832-34); Allan Cunningham, "Literature of the Last Fifty Years" The Athenaeum (26 October 1833) 715; Robert Chambers, Cyclopaedia of English Literature (1844); Ebenezer Elliott, "Cowper and Burns" Edinburgh Magazine 9 (1842); John Holland, in Psalmists of Britain (1843); Robert Shelton Mackenzie, "A Night with Burns" Ainsworth's Magazine 4 (November 1843) 395-400; John Wilson, The Genius and Character of Burns (1844); William Howitt, Homes and Haunts of the ... British Poets (1847); Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1858-71; 1882); William Anderson, Scottish Nation (1859-63); Andrew R. Bonar, Poets and Poetry of Scotland (1864); James Grant Wilson, Poetry of Scotland (1876); The English Poets, ed. Thomas Humphry Ward (1880); George Eyre-Todd, in Scottish Poetry of the Eighteenth Century (1896); Early Critical Reviews of Robert Burns (1900); Moulton, Library of Literary Criticism (1901-05); Franklyn B. Snyder, "Notes on Burns on Thomson" JEGP 19 (1920) 305-17; Franklyn B. Snyder, "Burns and his Biographers" Studies in Philology 25 (1928) 410-15; A. J. Thorogood, "Shenstone and Burns" London Mercury 18 (1928) 79-80; Sidney Jeffrey, "William Roscoe and Robert Burns" TLS (2 October 1937) 715; Robert T. Fitzhugh, Robert Burns, his Associates and Contemporaries (1943); Rayner Unwin, The Rural Muse (1954); J. W. Egerer, Bibliography of Robert Burns (1964); M. Lindsay, ed., Burns Encyclopedia (1959, 1970); Thomas Crawford, Burns: a Study of the Poems and Songs (1960); Maurice Lindsay, Robert Burns: the Man, his Work, and the Legend (1968); Robert T. Fitzhugh, Robert Burns (1970); Raymond Bentman, "Robert Burns's declinging Fame" Studies in Romanticism (1972) 207-24; Donald A. Low, Burns: The Critical Heritage (1974); Butt, OHEL (1979); Maurice Lindsay, The Burns Encyclopedia (3rd ed.; 1980); Mary Ellen Brown, Burns and Tradition (1984); Carol McGuirk, Robert Burns and the Sentimental Era (1985); Raymond Bentman, Robert Burns (1987); Everard H. King, "Robert Burns and James Beattie" Dalhousie Review 67 (1990) 45-53; Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry Database (1995); David Hill Radcliffe, "Imitation, Popular Literacy, and The Cotter's Saturday Night" in Carol McGuirk, ed. Critical Essays on Robert Burns (1998) 251-79; Tim Burke, in Eighteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets (2003).

1.	1786 Henry Mackenzie, The Lounger No. XCVII (9 December 1786) 385-88.
2.	1787 Anonymous, "Poems by Robert Burns" Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser (1 January 1787).
3.	1787 J. B., "To Robert Burns" Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser (24 March 1787).
4.	1787 Scotus, "To John Burn [sic]" Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser (15 August 1787).
5.	1787 Helen Maria Wiliams to Robert Burns, 20 June 1787; Edinburgh Magazine NS 1 (September 1817) 109.
6.	1787 Philo-Burns, "Sonnet. Addressed to Mr. Creech of Edinburgh. On reading Burn's Poems" New London Magazine 3 (October 1787) 552.
7.	1787 William Cowper to Samuel Rose, 24 July 1787; Southey, Life and Works of Cowper (1835-37) 6:54-55.
8.	1787 Anna Seward to William Newton, the Peak Minstrel, 26 September 1787; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 1:326.
9.	1788 Gavin Turnbull, in "The Bard, a Poem; in the Manner of Spencer" Poetical Essays (1788) 137-38.
10.	1788 Anonymous, "To Mr. Robert Burns" Edinburgh Magazine or Literary Miscellany 7 (January 1788) 70.
11.	1788 J. J—n, "Epistle to Mr. Robert Burns" Scots Magazine 50 (November 1788) 558-59.
12.	1788 J. R—d, "Epistle to Mr. Robert Burns" Scots Magazine 50 (December 1788) 608.
13.	1788 James Maxwell, "On the Ayr-shire Ploughman Poet, or Poetaster, R. B." Animadversions on some Poets and Poetasters (1788) 4-8.
14.	1788 James Macaulay, "To Mr. R*** B**, Ayrshire" Macaulay, Poems on Various Subjects, in Scots and English (1788) 195-200.
15.	1789 Thomas Blacklock, "To Robert Burns" 24 August 1789; Joseph Robertson, Lives of the Scottish Poets (1822) 2:2:44-45.
16.	1789 Alpine, "To Robert Burns, the Airshire Poet" Virginia Gazette (17 September 1789).
17.	1789 Anonymous, "Verses, written in Broad Scotch, and addressed to Robert Burns, the Air Shire Poet" Literary Magazine and British Review 2 (May 1789) 297-98.
18.	1790 K., "To Robert Burns" Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser (14 August 1790).
19.	1791 William Gifford, in The Baviad (1791) 45.
20.	1791 ca. James Graham, "On Burns, the Scottish Poet" 1791 ca.; Poems, in English, Scotch, and Latin (1794) 43-45.
21.	1791 Thomas Scotus, "To A' Scots Poets" Morning Chronicle (6 September 1791).
22.	1791 Helen Maria Williams, "Sonnet, on reading the Poem upon the Mountain-Daisy, by Mr. Burns" Poems (1791) 1:56-57.
23.	1792 Samuel Thomson, "Epistle to Mr. Robert Burns" 1792; Poems, on different Subjects, partly in the Scottish Dialect (1793) 85-89.
24.	1793 William Yates, "To Mr. Robert Burns, on his celebrated Poem of the Whistle" Literary Magazine and British Review 10 (March 1793) 236-37.
25.	1794 James Grahame, "On Burns, the Scottish Poet" Grahame, Poems, English, Scotch, and Latin (1794) 43-45.
26.	1796 William Roscoe to Rev. Mr. Edwards, 1796; Life of William Roscoe (1833) 1:172-73.
27.	1796 ca. Charlotte Smith, "To the Shade of Burns" 1796 ca.; Laura, ed. Capel Lofft (1814) No. DCCCXVII.
28.	1796 Anonymous, "Some Account of Robert Burns" Edinburgh Magazine NS 8 (September 1796) 169-74.
29.	1796 Ninfeild, "Elegy on the Death of R. Burns, the Ayrshire Plowman" Gentleman's Magazine 66 (August 1796) 684.
30.	1796 Anonymous, "Verses to the Memory of R. Burns" The Telegraph (29 July 1796).
31.	1796 J. H., "Elegy on the Death of R. Burns" Newcastle Chronicle (3 September 1796).
32.	1796 Alexander Balfour, "Elegy. To the Memory of Robert Burns" Edinburgh Magazine or Literary Miscellany NS 8 (December 1796) 465-67.
33.	1796 W. B., "On the Death of Robert Burns" Morning Chronicle (6 August 1796).
34.	1796 Anonymous, "Epitaph on Burns the Poet" Morning Post and Fashionable World (9 August 1796).
35.	1796 E. Hyslop, "To the Memory of Robert Burns" The Star, Daily Evening Advertiser (25 August 1796).
36.	1796 A Lady, "Lines written on the Death of Robert Burns" The Star, Daily Evening Advertiser (26 December 1796).
37.	1796 An Auld Fifeshire Ploughman, "On the Death of Robert Burns" The Telegraph (16 September 1796).
38.	1796 Crito, "Epitaph on Robert Burns" Walker's Hibernian Magazine (November 1796) 570.
39.	1796 Alouette, "Reflections on the Death of Robert Burns, the Ayrshire Ploughman" Massachusetts Magazine or Monthly Museum 8 (November 1796) 617-18.
40.	1796 Alexis, "Lines on the late Scotch Poet" New-York Weekly Magazine 2 (21 December 1796) 200.
41.	1796 Anonymous, "Written in the blank Leaf of Burns' Poems" Aberdeen Magazine 1 (October 1796) 247.
42.	1796 Anonymous, "Epitaph on Robert Burns the Poet" Columbian Herald or, the New Daily Advertiser [Charleston] (2 November 1796).
43.	1796 Anonymous, "Lines on the much lamented Death of Robert Burns, the Scots Poet" Columbian Herald or, the New Daily Advertiser [Charleston] (2 November 1796).
44.	1797 A. W., "A Pastoral Elegy, in the Scotch Dialect, on the Death of Robert Burns" Scots Magazine 59 (September 1797) 689-90.
45.	1797 William Hamilton Reid?, "An Elegy to the Memory of Mr. Robert Burns, the celebrated Scots Poet" American Universal Magazine [Philadelphia] 1 (20 March 1797) 447-48.
46.	1797 Anonymous, "The Tomb of Burns" Aberdeen Magazine 2 (February 1797) 92-93.
47.	1797 Anonymous, "Stanzas, to the Memory of Robert Burns" The Monthly Magazine 3 (January 1797) 53-54.
48.	1797 Edward Rushton, "On the Death of Robert Burns, the Ayrshire Ploughman" Time Piece [New York] (10 November 1797).
49.	1797 William Roscoe, "Lines to the Memory of R. Burns" Scots Magazine 59 (January 1797) 51-52.
50.	1797 Anonymous, "Monody on the Death of Robert Burns" Scots Magazine 59 (May 1797) 337-38.
51.	1797 A Mourner, "On the Death of Burns" Edinburgh Magazine or Literary Miscellany NS 9 (April 1797) 296-97.
52.	1797 Thomas Mounsey Cunningham, "Verses on the Death of Burns" Edinburgh Magazine or Literary Miscellany NS 19 (August 1797) 138-39.
53.	1797 Anonymous, "Sonnet" City Gazette And Daily Advertiser [Charleston] (20 August 1797).
54.	1798 John Struthers, "Dirge, to a Person who lamented that no Monument had been erected on the Grave of Robert Burns" 1798; The Poor Man's Sabbath (1808) 76-78.
55.	1798 David Crawford, "An Answer to Will. M'Vitie" in Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1798) 111-13.
56.	1800 Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 28 July 1800; Thomas Noon Talfourd, Literary Sketches and Letters ... of Charles Lamb (1849) 71.
57.	1800 William Roscoe, "Elegy, on the Death of the Scottish Poet Burns" Morning Chronicle (28 July 1800).
58.	1800 J. F. D., "Epitaph for Robert Burns" Edinburgh Magazine or Literary Miscellany NS 16 (November 1800) 395.
59.	1800 Thomas Sanderson, "Elegy to the Memory of Robert Burns, the Scottish Bard" Original Poems (1800) 187-90, 236-37n.
60.	1801 M., "The Poet's Grave; a Tribute to the Memory of Burns" Gentleman's Magazine 71 (May 1801) 447-48.
61.	1801 D., "Elegiac Ode to the Memory of the late Robert Burns" The Monthly Magazine 11 (May 1801) 329.
62.	1801 Anonymous, "To the Memory of Robert Burns" Port Folio [Philadelphia] 1 (7 November 1801) 360.
63.	1802 Leigh Hunt, "Ode to the Memory of Burns" Morning Chronicle (27 June 1802).
64.	1802 James Pace, "The the Memory of Burns" Scots Magazine 64 (July 1802) 594.
65.	1802 Anonymous, "Ode for the Anniversary of the Birth-Day of Robert Burns" The Star (11 February 1802).
66.	1803 Anonymous, "Ode on the Anniversary of Burns's Birth-day" Edinburgh Magazine or Literary Miscellany NS 21 (February 1803) 136.
67.	1803 William Wordsworth, "Address to the Sons of Burns, after visiting their Father's Grave (August 14th, 1803)" Poems in Two Volumes (1807) 2:203-04.
68.	1804 David Irving, in Lives of the Scottish Poets (1804) 2:489.
69.	1805 Henry Boyd, in The Woodman's Tale (1805) 110.
70.	1805 A. M. A., "On visiting the tomb of Robert Burns" Scots Magazine 67 (October 1805) 784.
71.	1805 J. G. Bagshaw, Nottinghamshire Militia, "Epitaph on Robert Burns" Lady's Monthly Museum 15 (October 1805) 280
72.	1805 Thomas Stott, "Extemporaneous Effusion, on seeing the Birth-Place of Robert Burns" St. James's Chronicle (19 October 1805).
73.	1805 Anonymous, "Monody, on the Death of Robert Burns" Weekly Museum [New York] 17 (11 May 1805).
74.	1806 Samuel Egerton Brydges, "Traits of the Character of Burns, the Poet: with extracts from his Letters, and a comparison of his genius with that of Cowper" Censura Literaria 2 (1806) 42-64.
75.	1806 John Struthers, "Written for a Meeting of the Paisley Burns' Annivesary Society, 29th January 1806" The Peasant's Death (1806) 89-96.
76.	1806 Anonymous, "Spoken at a Meeting held on the 29th of January, 1806, in Greenock, to celebrate the Anniversary of the Birth of Robert Burns" The Monthly Magazine 21 (June 1806) 430-31.
77.	1806 Anonymous, "Monody on the Death of Robert Burns" Evening Fire-Side [Philadelphia] 2 (13 September 1806) 290.
78.	1806 Alexander Wilson, "On seeing the Portrait of Robert Burns. Addressed to the Artist" Literary Magazine and American Register [Philadelphia] 5 (June 1806) 477.
79.	1806 Anonymous, "A Lament on Burns" Port Folio [Philadelphia] NS 1 (22 March 1806) 175-76.
80.	1806 H. C., "In Memory of Burns" Port Folio [Philadelphia] NS 2 (30 August 1806) 128.
81.	1806 Hamilton Paul, "Verses read at Burns's Cottage" 1806; Port Folio [Philadelphia] NS 5 (2 January 1808) 8.
82.	1807 William Wordsworth, in "Resolution and Independence" Poems (1807) 1:100.
83.	1807 Lady Anne Hamilton, in Epics of the Ton (1807) 277-78 & n.
84.	1807 Robert Tannahill, "Dirge, written on reading an Account of Robert Burns's Funeral" Scots Magazine 69 (July 1807) 526.
85.	1807 A. M. P., "Stanzas, supposed to be written near the Grave of Burns" Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature 2 (February 1807) 91-92.
86.	1807 L-D-N-N-S, "Agreeable Interruption" Alexandria Daily Advertiser [Virginia] (6 February 1807).
87.	1808 John-Henry Kenney, "Fragment on the Death of Robert Burns" The Burniad; an Epistle to a Lady (1808) 27-28.
88.	1808 A Young Lady of Sixteen, "Tribute to the Genius of Robert Burns" Scots Magazine 70 (August 1808) 608.
89.	1809 Anonymous, in British Critic 34 (1809) 687-88.
90.	1809 A Caledonian, "Verses written in 1786, when the celebrated Robert Burns had bid farewell to his native Country, and was about to emigrate to Jamaica" Scots Magazine 71 (November 1809) 845-46.
91.	1810 Robert Tannahill, "Ode, recited by the President of the Burns' Anniversary Society, Paisley" Scots Magazine 72 (February 1810) 127.
92.	1812 George Dyer, in Poetics: or a Series of Poems and Disquisitions on Poetry (1812) 2:23.
93.	1812 A. Kyne, "On Robert Burns, written immediately after perusing a melancholy Account of his last Illness" European Magazine 62 (October 1812) 303.
94.	1813 Mary Russell Mitford to Sir William Elford, 10 November 1813; L'Estrange, Life of Mary Russell Mitford (1870) 1:186.
95.	1813 Lord Byron, Journal, 16 November 1813; Letters and Journals, ed. Rowland E. Prothero (1898-1901) 2:320.
96.	1813 Anonymous, in "Genius. Pronounced before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at their last Anniversary" General Repository and Review [Cambridge MA] 4 (October 1813) 385.
97.	1814 Anonymous, "Elegiac Verses to the Memory of Robert Burns" The Scourge 7 (March 1814) 184.
98.	1814 Earl of Buchan, "Address to the Poet Burns, on crowning his Bust at the Feet of Wallace's Colossal Statue at Dryburgh, October 15, 1814" St. James's Chronicle (5 November 1814).
99.	1814 Anonymous, "Stanzas written to commemorate the Anniversary of the Birth of Burns" The Star (3 February 1814).
100.	1814 W. Jos. Walter, "Verses on seeing the Grave of Burns in January last" The Star (15 April 1814).
101.	1815 William Henry Ireland, in Scribbleomania (1815) 38-42.
102.	1815 Helen, "Verses, suggested by the Subscription for the Mausoleum of Burns" The Star (5 September 1815).
103.	1816 George Colman the Younger, in Eccentricities for Edinburgh (1816) 4.
104.	1816 Thomas Campbell, "Ode to the Memory of Burns, spoken at the Commemoration of Robert Burns, on Saturday, by Mr. Conway" The Sun (27 May 1816).
105.	1816 John Mayne, "Lines in Commemoration of Robert Burns" The Star (10 June 1816).
106.	1816 Anonymous, "Suggested whilst reflecting on the Mausoleum about to be erected to the Memory of Burns" Ladies' Monthly Museum S3 4 (October 1816) 235-36.
107.	1816 T. W. Lake, "Lines supposed to be written over the public Monument of Burns" Morning Post (4 June 1816).
108.	1816 An English Lady, "Written for the Commemoration of Burns" The Sun (30 May 1816).
109.	1816 Anna, "Lines written for the Dinner in commemoration of Robert Burns" The Sun (5 June 1816).
110.	1816 Teutha, "Impromptu on the Person who was accused of an Attempt to purloin Burns's Poems from Mr. Sotheby's Auction Room" The Sun (19 December 1816).
111.	1817 Hugh Campbell, "Coila's Bard" Campbell, The Wanderer in Ayrshire (1817) 111-12.
112.	1818 John Keats to John Hamilton Reynolds, 13 July 1818; Works, ed. H. Buxton Forman (1901) 4:131.
113.	1818 Charles Lamb, in "George Wither" 1818; Works of Charles Lamb, ed. Lucas (1903-05) 1:182.
114.	1818 John Keats "On Visiting the Tomb of Burns" 1818; Poems, ed. De Selincourt (1926) 281.
115.	1818 S. A. N., "Lines to the Memory of Burns" New Monthly Magazine 10 (November 1818) 329.
116.	1818 A Lowland Laddie, "Lines spoken by the Ghost of Robert Burns, at the London Tavern, May 28, 1818, at a public Dinner in honour of his Memory" British Statesman (25 June 1819).
117.	1818 Anonymous, "Lines found in the room where Burns was born" Literary Panorama NS 7 (February 1818) 820-21.
118.	1818 Richard Hatt, "Monody to the Memory of Robert Burns" New British Lady's Magazine 1 (October 1818) 179.
119.	1818 Anonymous, "Lines on the celebrated Scottish Bard Robert Burns" Alexandria Herald [Virginia] (22 July 1818).
120.	1819 John Wilson, "Burns and the Ettrick Shepherd" Blackwood's Magazine 4 (February 1819) 521-29.
121.	1819 James Thomson, "Requiem to the Memory of Burns" European Magazine 75 (June 1819) 545.
122.	1819 A Literary Gentleman, "Ode for the Glasgow Ayrshire Society" New England Galaxy [Boston] 2 (14 May 1819) 123.
123.	1819 John Gibson Lockhart, "Burns's Dinner" Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk (1819) 1:106-43.
124.	1820 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1820 ca.; in Table Talk (1834) 321.
125.	1820 James Montgomery, "Robert Burns. Written on occasion of the Anniversary of his Birth-day being celebrated at Sheffield" The Star (22 May 1820).
126.	1820 Anonymous, "From the Liverpool Mercury: Burn's Anniversary" New England Galaxy [Boston] 3 (2 June 1820) 136.
127.	1820 Nicholas Toms Carrington, "Lines written at the Grave of Burns, before the Commencement of the Subscription for erecting a Monument to his Memory" Banks of Tamar (1820) 136-37.
128.	1820 James Boswell the Younger, "Verses sung at the Burns Anniversary at Alloway Kirk, in Ayrshire" The Star (4 February 1820).
129.	1820 W. G., "Song, written for the Anniversary of the Birth-Day of Burns" The Star (5 February 1820).
130.	1821 Mary Leman Rede, "To the Memory of Burns" La Belle Assemblee NS 24 (September 1821) 123.
131.	1821 Anonymous, "Verses on Burns' Punch Bowl, written extempore, at the House of R— B—" Port Folio [Philadelphia] S4 12 (December 1821) 485.
132.	1821 Anne Powell, "Robert Burns, occasioned, by the Prince of Wales contributing Fifty Guineas, toward erecting a Monument" Powell, Clifton (1821) 111-14.
133.	1822 Fitz-Greene Halleck, "Burns, to a Rose, brought from near Alloway Kirk, in Ayrshire, in the Autumn of 1822" Poetical Writings, ed. Wilson (1869) 22-29.
134.	1822 Anonymous, "Address written for the Anniversary of Burns's Birth-Day" Edinburgh Magazine NS 10 (January 1822) 70-71.
135.	1822 James B. Sheys, "Ode to the Memory of Burns, written for his Anniversary, Jan. 25th, 1822" Ladies' Literary Cabinet [New York] NS 5 (9 March 1822) 143.
136.	1822 J. D. C., "On Reading a Description of the Mausoleum of Robert Burns" The Sun (16 March 1822).
137.	1822 Anonymous, "Sonnet, written after reading Dr. Currie's Life of Burns" Morning Post (26 October 1822).
138.	1823 William Gillespie, "Verses written for the Anniversary of Burns, celebrated at Dumfries, 25th January, 1823" The Plough Boy [Albany] 4 (6 May 1823) 384.
139.	1824 William Hazlitt, in Select British Poets (1824) in Works, ed. Howe (1932) 9:242.
140.	1824 Allan Cunningham, "Robert Burns and Lord Byron" London Magazine 10 (August 1824) 117-24.
141.	1824 PHIL, "Lines on reading the Life of Robert Burns" European Magazine 86 (September 1824) 250.
142.	1824 Bryan Waller Procter, in Effigies Poeticae, or, the Portraits of the British Poets (1824) 103-04.
143.	1824 Julian, "Robert Burns" The New York Magazine 1 (March 1824) 180.
144.	1825 ca. Henry Mackenzie, Anecdotes and Egotisms, 1825 ca.; ed. Thompson (1927) 151-52.
145.	1825 James B. Sheys, "Burns. For the New York Burns Club" New England Galaxy 8 (4 February 1825).
146.	1825 Anonymous, "The Grave of Burns. Written in Sight of the Monumental Temple, at Dumfries" Port Folio [Philadelphia] S4 20 (July 1825) 88.
147.	1825 Allan Cunningham, in Songs of Scotland, Ancient and Modern (1825) 1:230-36.
148.	1826 Herbert Barton, in Mirror of Poesy (1826) 168.
149.	1826 Richard Ryan, in Poetry and Poets: being a Collection of the choicest Anecdotes relative to the Poets of every Age and Nation (1826) 3:44-50.
150.	1826 Anonymous, "Lines Spoken at the Anniversary Meeting at Leeds, 1826, to celebrate the Birth-day of Burns" The Sun (4 December 1827).
151.	1827 Walter Scott to John Gibson Lockhart, 1827; Lockhart, Life of Scott (1837-38; 1902) 1:121-22.
152.	1828 Walter Savage Landor, in "Landor, English Visitor, and Florentine Visitor," Imaginary Conversations (1828) 3:433-52.
153.	1828 Arion, "To Burns" Saturday Evening Post [Philadelphia] 7 (24 May 1828).
154.	1828 James, "To the Memory of Scotia's Bard" The Souvenir [Philadelphia] 1 (4 June 1828) 420.
155.	1828 Thomas Carlyle, Review of Lockhart, Life of Burns; Edinburgh Review 48 (December 1828) 267-312.
156.	1829 Anna Brownell Jameson, "Robert Burns" Loves of the Poets (1829; 1857) 388-408.
157.	1829 J. S., "Song, written for Burns's Anniversary, 1829" Edinburgh Literary Journal (14 February 1829) 198.
158.	1830 ca. Henry Francis Cary, 1830 ca.; Memoir of the Rev. Henry Francis Cary (1847) 2:296-97.
159.	1830 George Barrell Cheever, in Studies in Poetry ... A copious Collection of Elegant Extracts (1830) 220-23.
160.	1830 Anonymous, "Song, for the Anniversary of Burns" Edinburgh Literary Journal (23 January 1830) 56.
161.	1831 John Wilson, in "An Hour's Talk about Poetry" 1831; Recreations of Christopher North (1852) 80.
162.	1832 James Hogg, in Autobiography, 1832; Works (1865) 2:444.
163.	1833 James Montgomery, "Scottish Verse" Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c. (1833; 1836) 132-37.
164.	1836 L. L., in "English Poets" Southern Literary Messenger [Richmond] 2 (January 1836) 106.
165.	1840 Thomas Carlyle, in "The Hero as Man of Letters" 1840; Works (1885) 1:409-16.
166.	1842 Robert Story, in Love and Literature; being the Reminiscences, Literary Opinions, and Fugitive Pieces of a Poet in Humble Life (1842) 78-82.
167.	1842 C. H. Timperley, in Encyclopaedia of Literary and Typographical Anecdote (1842) 2:788n.
168.	1843 John Holland, in Psalmists of Britain. Records of upwards of One Hundred and Fifty Authors, who have rendered the Whole or Parts of The Book of Psalms, into English Verse (1843) 2:254-56.
169.	1844 John Wilson, in Essay on the Genius and Character of Burns (1844); Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1858-71; 1882) 1:302.
170.	1844 David Macbeth Moir, "Stanzas for the Burns Festival" 1844; Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir (1852; 1860) 1:347-52.
171.	1851 David Macbeth Moir, in Sketches of the Poetical Literature of the Past Half-Century (1851; 1856) 10-11.
172.	1866 Bryan Waller Procter, in Charles Lamb: a Memoir (1866) 79.
173.	1880 John Service, in The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions, ed. Thomas Humphry Ward (1880) 3:512-23.
174.	1882 Epes Sargent, in Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry (1882) 253.

1.	1788 Anonymous, in Catalogue of five hundred Celebrated Authors (1788).
2.	1796 Anonymous, "Some Account of Robert Burns, the Scotch Poet" European Magazine 30 (August 1796) 78-79.
3.	1796 Anonymous, Obituary in Gentleman's Magazine 66 (August 1796) 703-04.
4.	1806 Peter L. Courtier, in Lyre of Love (1806) 2:86-87.
5.	1808 Samuel Jackson Pratt, in Cabinet of Poetry (1808) 6:455-56.
6.	1812 Alexander Chalmers, in General Biographical Dictionary (1812-17) 7:401-14.
7.	1819 Thomas Campbell, in Specimens of the British Poets (1819; 1845) 640-44.
8.	1844 Robert Chambers, in Cyclopaedia of English Literature (1844; 1850) 2:479-83.
9.	1847 William Howitt, "Robert Burns" Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets (1847) 1:337-92.
10.	1876 Robert Carruthers, in Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature, 3rd ed. (1876; 1879) 5:390-98.

1.	1787 Joseph Addison: Robert Burns to Dr. John Moore, 2 August 1787; in Works, ed Douglas (1877-79) 4:6.
2.	1787 James Beattie: Robert Burns, in "To Miss Logan, with Beattie's Poems" 1787; Moulton, Library of Literary Criticism (1901-05) 4:431.
3.	1787 Rev. Thomas Blacklock: Robert Burns to Dr. John Moore, 2 August 1787; Works, ed Douglas (1877-79) 4:18.
4.	1787 Rev. Hugh Blair: Robert Burns, Edinburgh Common-Place Book, 9 April 1787; Works, ed. Douglas (1877-79) 4:216-17.
5.	1787 Robert Fergusson: Robert Burns, Epitaph for Fergusson, 1787; Poems, ed. Kinsley (1968) 1:322.
6.	1787 Robert Fergusson: Robert Burns, "Written under the Portrait of Fergusson the Poet, in a Copy of that Author's Works presented to a young Lady, Edinburgh 19th March 1787" Scots Magazine 65 (November 1803) 798.
7.	1787 Henry Mackenzie: Robert Burns to Mrs. Dunlop, 10 April 1790; Works, ed. Douglas (1877-79) 5:309.
8.	1787 Allan Ramsay: Robert Burns to James Hoy, 6 November 1787; in Works, ed Douglas (1877-79) 4:303.
9.	1787 William Shenstone: Robert Burns to Dr. John Moore, 2 August 1787; Works, ed Douglas (1877-79) 4:13.
10.	1788 Alexander Ross: Robert Burns to John Beugo, 9 September 1788; Letters, ed. Roy (1985) 1:312.
11.	1790 Lord Chesterfield: Robert Burns to Mrs. Dunlop, 10 April 1790; Burns, Works, ed. Douglas (1877-79) 5:307-08.
12.	1790 Oliver Goldsmith: Robert Burns to Mrs. Dunlop, 10 April 1790; Works, ed. Douglas (1877-79) 5:307.
13.	1790 Charlotte Smith: Robert Burns to Dr. John Moore, 14 July 1790; Works, ed. Douglas (1877-79) 5:312.
14.	1790 Tobias Smollett: Robert Burns to Alexander Cunningham, 8 August 1790; Works, ed. Douglas (1877-79) 5:319.
15.	1791 James Thomson: Robert Burns, "Thomson's Birth-day" The Star (14 September 1791).
16.	1793 Andrew Erskine: Robert Burns to John Francis Erskine (1793); in Letters, ed. Roy (1985) 2:207.
17.	1793 Gavin Turnbull: Robert Burns to George Thomson, 29 October 1793; in Works, ed. Douglas (1877-79) 6:293-94.
18.	1796 Dr. John Wolcot: Robert Burns to George Thomson, February 1796; Works, ed. Douglas (1877-79) 6:351.