INDEX
Adair, Dr., [76].
[Addington, Mr.,] [69]-70, [144], [171].
Address to the Deil, [23].
Address to the Unco Guid, [58], [199].
Aiken, Robert, [29].
Ainslie, Mr., [60], [72], [91].
Aird, Thomas, [194].
Alison, Rev. A., [128]-129.
Alloway Kirk, [121];
Kirkyard, [16].
Alloway Mill, school at, [5].
A Man's a Man for a' that, [167].
[Armour, Jean,] [26]-27, [62]-63, [83]-84, [85]-88, [141], [160].
Armour, Mr., [26], [33], [83]-84, [96].
Athole, Duchess of, [65].
Athole, Duke of, [67].
Auld Lang Syne, [206].
Auld Lights, The, [18].
Ayr, river, [27].
Banks o' Doon, [123]-124, [161], [205].
Bard's Epitaph, the, [190].
Begbie, Ellison, [12].
Begg, Mrs. (Burns's sister), [25], [62].
Belches of Invermay, The, [75].
Birks of Invermay, The, [75].
Blacklock, Dr., [38], [48]-49, [104].
Blair Castle, [65], [67].
Blair, Dr. H., [38], [44], [48], [50]-51, [56]-57.
Bonnie Peggie Alison, [12].
Brigs of Ayr, [58].
Brow, [179], [184].
Brown, Agnes (Burns's mother), [3].
Bruar Water, Humble Petition of, [66]-67.
Bruce, Mrs., of Clackmannan, [77]-78.
Bruce, Robert, [78], [157].
Burnes, James (Burns's cousin), [183].
Burness (or Burnes), William (Burns's father), [2]-3, [6]-7, [14]-15.
Burns, Gilbert, [5], [9]-12, [26], [36], [85], [99]-100.
Burns, Mrs. See [Armour, Jean.]
Burns, Robert, biographies of, [1];
birth, [2];
parentage, [2]-3, [6]-7, [14]-15;
successive homes:
Mount Oliphant, [4]-9,
Lochlea, [9]-15,
Mossgiel, [15], [20], [22], [24];
school-days, [5]-7;
household reading, [6]-7;
early love affairs, [8]-10, [12], [26]-30;
youthful dissipation, [10], [13]-15;
Burns as a farmer, [15]-16, [20]-21, [95], [98]-99, [132]-133;
religious controversy, [17]-20;
poetic aspirations, [21];
two prolific years, [22]-26;
Jean Armour, [26], [27];
resolves to emigrate, [27], [30], [32], [34];
Kilmarnock edition of the poems published, [30]-34;
literary earnings, [32], [58]-59, [85], [152];
immediate popularity, [33]-34, [37], [39];
his manners, [36];
first winter in Edinburgh, [42]-59;
literary and legal lights, [44]-46;
the lion of the season, [48]-57;
his appearance, [49]-50, [118], [170];
tavern life, [57]-58;
second edition of the poems, [58]-59;
Border and Highland tours, [60], [63]-78;
Burns's descriptions of scenery, [71]-72;
disappointing poetic fruits, [73];
knighted by Mrs. Bruce, [78];
second winter in Edinburgh, [79]-93;
reasons for his stay, [79];
hypochondria and despondency, [81];
Mrs. M'Lehose, [82]-84;
appointment in the excise, [84];
marriage, [85]-88;
change in the attitude of Edinburgh society, [89]-90;
some reasons for it, [90]-92;
life at Ellisland, [94]-134;
Burns's farm, [95];
discomfort and despondency, [96]-97;
happiest period of his life, [99], [102];
house at Ellisland, [101]-102;
as an exciseman, [105]-106;
restlessness and discontent, [113], [115]-116;
Tam o' Shanter, [120]-122;
dramatic aspirations, [126];
gives up his farm, [133];
migration to Dumfries, [135];
downward course, [138], [162], [164], [172];
social discredit, [139], [173];
politics, [139], [142]-149, [161], [168]-169, [171];
friendship with the Liddels, [140], [162], [179]-180;
Mrs. M'Lehose reappears, [140]-141;
relations with Johnson and Thomson, [150]-154, [159];
excursion into Galloway, [156]-157;
an unhappy time, [161]-164;
declining health, [165], [174];
joins the volunteers, [169]-170;
last illness, [176]-179;
poverty and anxiety, [180]-184;
death, [185];
Burns's grave, [186]-187;
character, [188], [189].
As a poet:
satires, [19]-20, [31]-32,
epistles, [23],
pure landscape not his forte, [71], [72],
at his best in the Scottish dialect, [73], [151],
tenderness towards animals, [106]-108, [179],
Bacchanalian songs, [110]-112,
Burns in the hour of inspiration, [121]-122,
elegies, [123],
circumstance and mental habits forbade long poems, [126],
love songs, [140]-141, [160]-161,
in the act of composition, [159]-160,
piercing insight and large sympathy, [192],
truthfulness of nature, [193],
caustic wit, [193],
the interpreter of Scotland's peasantry, [196],
the restorer of her nationality, [196]-197,
catholicity, [197]-198,
intense love of nature, [200],
Burns as a song-writer, [202]-206.
Campbell, Mary. See [Highland Mary.]
Carlyle, Thomas, [17], [54], [129], [131]-132, [156]-157, [169], [202].
Cathcart, Miss, [66].
Chalmers, Margaret, [80]-81, [84], [87], [183].
Chambers, Dr., [11], [27], [39] et passim.
Clarinda. See [M'Lehose, Mrs.]
Clark, William, [117]-118.
Commonplace Book, Burns's, [55]-56, [115].
Cotter's Saturday Night, The, [20], [23], [25], [37], [70], [195].
Cowper, [47], [48].
Craig, Mrs., [184].
Creech, Mr., [56]-59, [79], [85], [153].
Crochallan Club, The, [58], [61], [63], [91].
Cruikshank, Mr., [78].
Cunningham, Alexander, [163].
Cunningham, Allan, [75], [89], [96], [97], [125], [133] et passim.
Currie, Dr., [174].
Daer, Lord, [35], [156].
Dalrymple, Mr., [46].
Dalswinton, [94].
Davidson, John (Souter Johnnie), [122].
Death and Dr. Hornbook, [23], [58], [70].
Death of Poor Mailie, The, [9].
Deil's awa' wi' the Exciseman, The, [145].
Despondency, Ode to, [31].
Don, Lady Harriet, [127].
Doon, Brig of, [2], [3], [4].
Dumfries,
Burns's life at, [135]-154;
social condition of, [136].
Dundas, Mr. Henry, [67], [92], [143], [171].
Dunlop, Mrs., [34], [36]-37, [96];
letters to, [54], [86], [89], [96], [100], [109], [113], [114], [149], [165], [169], [174], [175], [183].
Ecclefechan, [168]-169.
Edinburgh,
Burns's first winter in, [42]-59;
tavern life in, [57]-58;
second winter in, [79]-93.
Eglinton, Lord, [58].
Ellisland, [56], [61], [80], [85], [89], [94]-134.
Epistles, Burns's, [23]-24.
Erskine, H., [45]-46.
Erskine of Mar, Mr., [148].
Essay on Taste, Alison's, [128]-129.
Farmer's Address to his Mare, [23], [108], [195].
Ferguson, Dr. Adam, [48], [53].
Fergusson, the poet, [44], [191].
French Revolution,
Burns's sympathy with, [144]-146, [157].
Galloway, Burns's tour in, [155]-156.
"Geddes, Jenny," [128].
Glencairn, Lady, [104].
Glencairn, Lord, [46], [56], [123].
Globe Tavern, the, [116], [128], [137]-138, [176].
Gordon Castle, [68]-69.
Gordon, Duchess of, [46], [69].
Gordon, Duke of, [68].
Gow, Neil, [73]-74.
Graham, Douglas (Tom o' Shanter), [122].
Graham, Mrs., [66].
Graham of Balnagown, [66].
Graham of Fintray, Mr., [67], [84], [103], [120], [147], [172].
Greenfield, Mr., [56]-57.
Grose, Captain, [108]-109, [120]-121.
Halloween, [23], [194], [200].
Hamilton, Charlotte, [80]-81, [183].
Hamilton, Gavin, [19], [30], [76], [80].
Hazlitt, [12].
Heron of Heron, [169].
Heron Robert, [33], [57], [58].
Hemans, Mrs., [157].
Highland Mary, [27]-31, [34], [112]-113.
[Highland Mary,] Lament for, [27], [31]-32, [113].
Holy Fair, The, [19]-20, [25], [31].
Holy Willie's Prayer, [19], [31].
Hume, David, [44].
Jacobitism, Burns's, [142]-143.
Jeffrey, [52], [177].
John Anderson my Jo, [114].
Johnson, Dr., [45].
Johnson's Museum, [73], [75], [114], [150]-151.
Johnson, the engraver, [73], [150], [179].
Jolly Beggars, The, [23], [25], [126], [201].
Justice of Peace (Langhorne's), [53].
Kilmarnock edition of the poems, [30]-33, [191].
Kirkoswald, [10], [13], [122].
Kirk's Alarm, The, [109].
Land o' Cakes, [108]-109.
Lass of Cessnock Water, The, [12].
Laurie, Dr., [38], [48].
Lewars, Jessie, [178], [185].
Lewars, Mr., [105].
Lochlea, [9]-15.
Lockhart, Mr., [20], [27], [48], [62], [67], [87], [127], [145].
Lounger, The, [45], [47].
M'Culloch, David, [164].
Mackenzie, H., [45], [48].
[M'Lehose, Mrs.,] [82]-85, [140]-141.
Macpherson's Farewell, [71].
Mary in Heaven, [73], [112], [114], [120], [161].
Mary Morrison, [11]-12.
Masterton, Allan, [110].
Mauchline, [15], [62], [99].
Maxwell, Provost, [115].
Mendelssohn, [179].
Miller of Dalswinton, Mr., [85], [95], [98], [133].
Milton, [55], [63].
Mitchell, Collector, [175], [182].
Monboddo, Lord, [45], [48].
Moore, Dr., [72], [125].
Mossgiel, [15], [20], [22], [24], [38], [61].
Mountain Daisy, The, [23], [36].
Mount Oliphant, [4]-9.
Mouse, To a, [23], [108].
Murdoch, Burns's tutor, [5]-7.
My Nannie, O, [9], [11].
"Nell, Handsome," [7]-9.
New Lights, [18]-19, [34], [109].
"Nicht wi' Burns," a, [130]-131.
Nicol, Mr., [61], [63], [66], [68]-70, [72], [97].
North, Christopher, [42].
Of a' the airts, [161].
Oh, wert thou in the cauld blast, [178].
Ordination, The, [19], [25], [58].
Paine, Tom, [146].
[Pindar, Peter,] [152].
Poems,
Kilmarnock edition, [30]-33, [191];
second edition, [58]-59.
Politics, Burns's part in, [139], [142]-149, [161], [169], [171].
Prentice, Mr., [42].
Punch-bowl, Burns's, [96], [131]-132.
Ramsay, Allan, [21], [23], [44], [75], [191].
Ramsay of Ochtertyre, [119], [125].
Rankine, Epistle to John, [16].
Richmond, John, [43].
Riddel, Mrs. W., [141], [179]-180.
Riddel of Friars' Carse, [98], [162].
Riddel, Walter, [139], [162].
Robertson, Dr., [44]-48.
"Rosamond," the brig, [145].
Ruin, Ode to, [31].
Samson, John, [43].
Scots wha hae, [155]-157, [206].
Scott-Douglas, Mr., [27]-28, [124].
Scott, Sir W., [52], [54], [75]-76, [197].
Selkirk, Lord, [155].
Sidmouth, Lord. See [Addington, Mr.]
Silver Tassie, the, [114].
Skinner, Bishop, [74].
Smith, Adam, [45].
Smith, Betty, [99], [101].
Songs, Burns's, [202]-205.
Stewart, Dugald, [34]-36, [43]-44, [46], [51], [56]-57.
Syme, Mr., [154]-155, [170].
Tam o' Shanter, [120]-122, [125], [191], [201]-202.
Tarbolton, [10].
Thomson, Geo., [126], [151]-153, [156], [161], [165], [171], [177], [182]-183.
Tours, Border and Highland, [60]-78.
Twa Dogs, The, [23], [31], [70], [193], [194].
Twa Herds, The, [19].
Tytler, Mr. Fraser, [48].
Vision, The, [23].
Walker, Prof., [49], [51], [66], [174].
Wallace, William, [21], [36], [197].
Wee Vennel, the, [135], [137].
Whistle, The, [111]-112.
Willie brewed a peck o' maut, [110]-112.
Wilson, John (painter), [31].
Winter Night, The, [108].
Wolcot, Dr. See [Pindar, Peter.]
Woodley Park, [140], [162].
Wordsworth, [71], [157]-159, [190].
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