The Canongate Burns. Robert Burns

1 See John Strawhorn, ‘Farming in 18th-century Ayrshire’, in Collections of the Ayrshire Archeological and Natural History Society, 2nd Series, III (1955), pp. 136–73.

2 See J. De Lancey Ferguson The Pride and the Passion (New York: Oxford University Press, 1939), p. 114.

3 See John Brewer, The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State 1688–1783 (London: Routledge, 1989), pp. 101–14.

4 Roy Porter, The Pelican Social History of Britain: English Society in the Eighteenth Century (London: Penguin, 1982), p. 30.

5 Robert Morrison, ‘Red De Quincey’, The Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 28, 1998, pp. 131–6.

6 Donald Low, Robert Burns: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge, 1974), pp. 421–30.

7 Ibid., p. 429.

8 James Mackay, RB: A Biography of Robert Burns (Edinburgh Mainstream, 1992), p. 519.

9 David Cannadine, ‘The Making of the British Upper Class’ in Aspects of Aristocracy (London: Penguin, 1994), pp. 9–36.

10 John Keane, Tom Paine: A Political Life (London: Bloomsbury, 1995), p. 54.

11 See Stephen C. Behrendt, Romanticism, Radicalism and the Press (University of Nebraska, 1997), p. 14.

12 Fintan O’Toole, A Traitor’s Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (London: Granta, 1997), pp. 31–2.

13 J.R. Dinwiddy, ‘Conceptions of Revolution in the English Radicalism of the 1790s’ in Radicalism and Reform in Britain, 1780–1850, ed. H.T. Dickinson, (London: The Hambledon Press, 1992,) p. 169.

14 John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, ‘Cato’s Letters’ in The English Libertarian Heritage, ed. David L. Jacobson (San Francisco: Fox & Wilkes, 1994), p. 42.

15 Ibid. pp. 53–4.

16 Ibid.p. 63.

17 Michael Durey, Transatlantic Radicals and the Early American Republic (University of Kansas, 1997), pp. 50–79. The Life and Letters of Alexander Wilson, ed. Clark Hunter (Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1983).

18 John Thelwall, The Politics of English Jacobinism, ed. Gregory Claeys (Pennsylvania State U.P., 1995), p. 40.

19 See Francis Hutcheson, Short Introduction, 5th edn (Philadelphia, 1799), pp. 289–92.

20 Richard Rorty, ‘Afterword: Pragmatism, Pluralism and Postmodernism’ in Philosophy and Social Hope (London: Penguin, 1999), p. 265.

21 Cynthia Ozick, ‘From the Book of Job’, (New York: Vintage Spiritual Classics, 1998), pp. xx–xxi.

22 Love and Liberty, ed. K.G. Simpson (Edinburgh: Tuckwell Press, 1997), p. 179.

23 Edwin Muir, ‘Robert Burns’ in Edwin Muir: Uncollected Scottish Criticism, ed. Andrew Noble (London/New York, 1982), p. 183.

24 Roger Fechner, ‘Burns and American Liberty’ in Love and Liberty, p. 278.

25 E.W. McFarlane, Ireland and Scotland in the Age of Revolution (Edinburgh University Press, 1994), p. 136.

26 The Critical Heritage, p. 16.

27 Henry Mackenzie, ‘Three Scottish Poets’ in The Anecdotes and Egotisms of Henry Mackenzie, ed. H.W. Thompson (Oxford University Press, 1927), pp. 150–2.

28 Literature and Literati: The Literary Correspondence and Notebooks of Henry Mackenzie, Vol. 2, ‘Letters 1766–1827’, ed. Horst W. Drescher, (Frankfurt, 1989), p. 358.

29 Ibid., p. 358.

30 Ibid., p. 172.

31 Ibid., p. 74.

32 Ibid., p. 175.

33 Ibid., p. 178.

34 T.M. Devine, The Scottish Nation 1700–2000 (London: The Penguin Press, 1999), p. 215.

35 Edinburgh University Library, Laing Collection, II, folio 269. Two other Heron letters in folio 500–501.

36 Robert Heron, A Memoir of the Life of the Late Robert Burns (Edinburgh, 1797). Reprinted in Hans Hecht, Robert Burns: The Man and His Work (London: William Hodge & Co., 1936), pp. 335–6.

37 Ibid., p. 326.

38 Ibid., pp. 338–9.

39 Ibid., pp. 344–5.