Robert Burns, A Very Peculiar History电子书

Cover

Front Matter

Title Page

Publisher Information

Dedication

Robert Burns

Quotes

Introduction: Touching Scotland’s soul

Bawdy bard

A guid Scots tongue

CHAPTER ONE: ‘There was once a lad’

No place like home

Blowing up the Bard

That’s no hovel – it’s my home!

The parents of the Bard

One ‘s’ or two?

Robert Burns’s Parents and Siblings

Home, sweet home

From dream to nightmare

Scotland – a poor relation?

The old ways

Ignorance and poverty

The ‘improvers’

Some Lowland farming ‘improvements’

CHAPTER TWO: ‘In youthful bloom’

Less inspiration, more perspiration

An ‘improving’ education

The sound of music

Wild fantastic!

Feeding the mind

Learning at home

The power of the Kirk

Scots mither tongue

Practice makes perfect

CHAPTER THREE: ‘Of independent mind’

Friendship first

A clear head for writing

Burning issues

The Brotherhood

Braveheart

Words of love

Out of this world

CHAPTER FOUR: ‘That delicious passion’

A heart on fire

‘Uncommon invitin’

Mr Southwest Scotland 1780

Visitors! Home-comers! Long-lost relatives!

‘As willin’ as I…’

An understanding partner

Our dearest blessing

‘Love is all around you…’

The personal and the political

A model poet?

CHAPTER FIVE: ‘‘Guess and fear’

Life-savers

The call of duty

News Flash

In disgrace

‘O Jeany…’

Love me, love my dog…

Further afield

‘A grand cure’

Highland Mary

CHAPTER SIX: ‘One last foolish thing’

The business of publishing

Fame at last

Emergency equipment for the poet in a hurry

CHAPTER SEVEN: ‘Caledonia’s bard’

Edinburgh’s amazing vibrating poet

An influential admirer

A Noble Savage?

Straight to the heart

What they said in Edinburgh

Watch the bardie

Poet out of place

Scott on Burns

The Edinburgh edition

A new way to publish old poems

Passion and poetry

Nature’s charms

CHAPTER EIGHT: ‘My luckless lot’

The new Mrs Burns

Robert Burns’s other children

In praise of Jean

Words and music

Danger – poet at work!

A ‘Musical Museum’

On good form

Dancing with the Devil

Poacher turned gamekeeper?

Domestic bliss

One last kiss

Not funny!

CHAPTER NINE: ‘A Man’s a Man’

‘Come, ye sons of Liberty’: Burns and the radicals – a timeline

A man’s a man

A vexed question

Needs must…

Heartsick

The heavy hand…

Dust to dust

IN CONCLUSION: Great Scot!

How to hold a Burns supper

Address to a Haggis

Burns turns of phrase

‘Let’s sing our sang…’

For auld acquaintance

A Burns Timeline

Glossary

End matter

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