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1 ROBERT BURNS THE CRITICAL HERITAGE Edited by DONALD A. LOW London and New York

2 Contents ABBREVIATIONS PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION page XIV NOTE ON THE TEXT 59 Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Kilmarnock THOMAS BLACKLOCK, letter to Rev. George Lawrie, September Unsigned notice in Edinburgh Magazine, October 'AIXAN RAMSAY* and 'G.H.', correspondence in Edinburgh Evening Courant, November HENRY MACKENZIE, unsigned essay in Lounger, December JAMES ANDERSON, unsigned review in Monthly Review, December Unsigned notice in New Annual Register, JOHN LOGAN, (a) Unsigned review, English Review, February (b) Letter to Henry Mackenzie, February Unsigned notice in Critical Review, May HUGH BLAIR, undated notes, JAMES MACAULAY in Edinburgh Evening Courant, June Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Edinburgh Unsigned notices in Universal Magazine, (a) May (b) 'A Friend to Genius' (Supplement), June Unsigned notice in New Town and Country Magazine, August Unsigned notice in General Magazine and Impartial Review, JAMES ANDERSON, unsigned notice in Monthly Review, December XV I * ix

3 CONTENTS 15 WILLIAM COWPER, letters to Samuel Rose, July and August DOROTHYWORDSWORTH, letter to Jane Pollard, December Verse attack and verse tribute 93 (a) JAMES MAXWELL, Animadversions on Some Poets..., (b) HELEN CRACK, 'Here native Genius', October A. F. TYTLER, letter to Burns, March ROBERT HERON, Observations... in a Journey..., JOSEPH RITSON, Collection of Scottish Songs, GEORGE THOMSON, an unsigned obituary notice in London Chronicle, July MARIA RIDDELL, 'character sketch' in Dumfries Journal, August COLERIDGE on Burns, (a) From 'To a Friend', 'Bristol Newspaper', (b) Letter to John Thelwall, December (c) Letter to Thomas Poole, July (d) Notebook, February (e) From the Friend, February (f) From Biographia Literaria, (g) From Biographia Literaria, 1817 no 24 LAMB on Burns, in (a), (b), (c) Letters to Coleridge, (d) Letter to Southey, March (e) Letter to Coleridge, July ( ) Letter to Wordsworth, April (g) Letter to John Bates Dibdin, June THOMAS DUNCAN, letter, October ROBERT HERON, memoir in Monthly Magazine, June WILLIAM REID, from unsigned poem, ALEXANDER CAMPBELL On Bums, I798 and l8l6 129 (a) From An Introduction to the History of Poetry in Scotland, (b) From Albyns Anthology, WORDSWORTH, letter to Coleridge, February JAMES CURRIE, essay in The Works of Robert Burns..., ROBERT NARES, unsigned review in British Critic, October 1800 and April THOMAS STEWART, l8oo and l8oi 158 (a) Unsigned foreword to The Poetical Miscellany...,

4 f CONTENTS (b) Unsigned 'Advertisement', in Poems Ascribed to Robert Burns..., WILLIAM AND DOROTHY WORDSWORTH, l8o2~ (a) From 'Resolution and Independence', (b) From Dorothy Wordsworth's 'Recollections of a Tour made in Scotland', (c) From 'At the Grave of Burns, 1803', (d) From 'Thoughts suggested...', (e) William Wordsworth, note on MS. of (c), DAVID IRVING, from 'The life of Robert Burns', SOUTHEY on Burns, (a) Letter to John Rickman, December (b) Letter to G. C. Bedford, April SIR EGERTON BRYDGES, in Censura Literaria, THOMAS MOORE, 1807 and (a) From a letter to Sir John Stevenson, February (b) From the preface to The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore collected by Himself, BYRON, from English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, R. H. Cromek, Reliques of Robert Burns, FRANCIS JEFFREY, unsigned review in Edinburgh Review, January WALTER SCOTT, unsigned review in Quarterly Review, February Unsigned review in Universal Magazine, February JAMES MONTGOMERY, unsigned review in Eclectic Review, May JOHN HODGSON, unsigned review in Monthly Review, December DOROTHY WORDSWORTH, letter to De Quincey, May JOSIAH WALKER, from Account of the life... of Robert Burns, WILLIAM PEEBLES, 'Burns Renowned', G. GLEIG, from A Critique on the Poems of Robert Burns, HENRY CRABB ROBINSON, diary entries, (a) May (b) August xi

5 CONTENTS (c), (d) May (e) February (f) June (g) May (h) August BYRON, extracts from journal, (a) November (b) December SCOTT on Burns (a) Letter to Lord Byron, November (b) Letter to an 'unknown correspondent' (J. Forbes Mitchell?), April (c) Undated MS. note 259 (d), (e) From Journal, February and December (f) Letter to John Richardson, July (g) Letter to J. G. Lockhart, March (h) Reminiscence for Lockhart's Life of Burns, (i), (j) Letters to J. G. Lockhart, June and August (k) Letter to the Earl of Elgin, January (1) from 'Essay on Imitations of the Ancient Ballad', April ALEXANDER PETERKiN, A Review of the Life of Robert Burns..., with letters by GILBERT BURNS and JAMES GRAY, 'The memory of Burns', Edinburgh Evening Courant, January WORDSWORTH on Burns, (a) A Letter to a Friend Of Robert Burns... (James Gray), January (b) Letter to John Scott, June JANE AUSTEN in Sanditon, JOHN WILSON in Blackwood's Magazine, June HAZLITT, from a lecture on Burns, KEATS on Burns, (a), (b) Letters to Tom Keats, July (c) Letter to J. H. Reynolds, July (d) Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, March j. G. LOCKHART, from Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk, JOHN WILSON in Blackwood's Magazine, February THOMAS CAMPBELL, Specimens of the British Poets..., BYRON, letter to John Murray, February xii

6 CONTENTS 62 HAZLITT on Burns, (a) From 'On Living to Oneself, (b) From Select British Poets, (c) From The Spirit of the Age, Blackwood's Magazine on Burns, (a) From j. G. LOCKHART, 'Noctes Ambrosianae. No. I', March (b) From WILLIAM MAGINN, 'Noctes Ambrosianae. No. IV', July HEW AINSLIE, from Pilgrimage to the Land of Burns, ALLAN CUNNINGHAM on Burns, 1824 and (a) From unsigned article, London Magazine, August (b) From The Songs of Scotland..., j: G. LOCKHART, Life of Robert Burns, THOMAS CARLYLE, unsigned review, Edinburgh Review, December MACAULAY, unsigned review, Edinburgh Review, January 'Christopher North', from 'Noctes Ambrosianae', Blackwood's Magazine, (a) April (b) April (c) January (d) August (e) November WORDSWORTH, note on a poem of 1833, ALLAN CUNNINGHAM, from The Works of Robert Burns..., JAMES HOGG, from Works of Robert Burns, THOMAS DE QUINCEY, in Tait's Magazine, February j. G. WHITTIER, from 'Burns. On receiving a sprig of heather in blossom', RALPH WALDO EMERSON On Bums, I84O, (a) Journal entry, December (b) Speech at Burns Centenary Dinner in Boston, January APPENDIX A: The publication of Burns's poems and songs, APPENDIX B : Burns in America: a late nineteenth-century view 439 BIBLIOGRAPHY 441 SELECT INDEX 443 xiii

WILLIAM BLAKE THE CRITICAL HERITAGE. Edited by G.E.BENTLEYJNR. London and New York

WILLIAM BLAKE THE CRITICAL HERITAGE Edited by G.E.BENTLEYJNR London and New York Contents PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION XV11 XIX I NOTE ON THE TEXT 27 Part I Blake's Life 1 General comments (a)