Robert Burns: How To Know Him

by William Allan Neilson

INDEX

[A]

[B]

[C]

[D]

[E]

[F]

[G]

[H]

[I]

[J]

[K]

[L]

[M]

[N]

[O]

[P]

Q

[R]

[S]

[T]

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V

[W]

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[Y]

Z

• [A Man's a Man for a' That], quoted [158], [317].
• [A Red, Red Rose], [101], quoted [102].
• [Address to the Deil], [38], [86], [281], quoted [282].
• [Address to the Unco Guid], [38], quoted [176], [189].
• Adventures of Telemachus, [17].
• [Ae Fond Kiss], quoted [56]-57, [75], [103].
• Æneid (Douglas's), [268].
• [Afton Water], quoted [116].
• Ainslie, Robert, [50].
• [Alloway], [4] ff.
• Animals, Burns's feeling for, [270], [271].
• Armour, James, [35], [37]-39.
• Armour, Jean, [35]-39, [50], [55], [93], [110], [122], [172].
• Arnold, Matthew, [206], [237].
• [Auld Lang Syne], [98], quoted [100].
• Auld Lichts, [179], [180], [184], [188].
• [Auld Rob Morris], [115], quoted [121].

• Bachelor's Club, [22].
• [Bannocks o' Barley], quoted [165].
• [Bard's Epitaph, A], [294], quoted [308].
• Beattie, [86].
• Beethoven, [95].
• Begbie, Ellison, [22]-23, [27], [110].
• [Bessy and Her Spinnin'-Wheel], quoted [145].
• Biography, Official, [68].
• Blacklock, Doctor, [39].
• Blair, Doctor, [45], [86].
• Blair Athole, [51].
• Boar's Head Tavern, [240].
• [Bonnie Lesley], [115], quoted [118].
• [Braw Braw Lads], quoted [140].
• Brow-on-Solway, [67].
• Browning, [320].
• Burnes, William, [3]-8.
• Burns, Agnes (Brown), [4], [8].
• Burns, Gilbert, [5]-6, [15], [31], [59], [90].
• Burns, Robert, his career: autobiographical letter, [1]-2; parentage and early life, [3]-23; schooling, [5]-8, [15], [17]; reading, [6]-8, [18]-19; study of French, [16]; folk-lore, [18]; overwork, [19]; first song, [20]; flax-dressing, [23]; early love-affairs, [22], [27]; Mossgiel, [31]-44; Elizabeth Paton, [32]-35; Jean Armour, [35]-36; Mary Campbell (Highland Mary), [36]-37; West Indian project, [37]-39; Elizabeth Miller, [37]; Kilmarnock edition, [37]-38; disciplined by the church, [38]-39; Edinburgh, [44]-56; early reviews, [46]; Edinburgh edition, [46]-50; southern tour, [50]; Highland tours, [50]-51; Mrs. McLehose, [52]-58; marriage, [55]; Ellisland, [53]-62; Excise, [61]-65; Dumfries, [62]-68; politics, [63]-65; work for Johnson and Thomson, [65]-66, [91]-98; whisky, [66]-67, [313]; illness and death, [66]-67.
• Burns and music, [9] ff.
• Burns's method of composition, [87], [92], [111]-112.
• Burns's stanza, [80].

• [Ca' the Yowes], quoted [115].
• Campbell, Mary, [36]-37, [76], [112]. See Highland Mary.
• Canterbury Tales, [254].
• Chalmers, Margaret, [110].
• [Charlie He's My Darling], quoted [168].
• Chaucer, [254].
• Chloris (Jean Lorimer), [110], [112].
• Choice Collection (Watson's), [81].
• Clarinda (Mrs. McLehose), [52]-58.
• [Clarinda], quoted [58], [75], [109].
• Cockburn, Mrs., [82].
• Coleridge, [321].
• [Come Boat Me O'er to Charlie], quoted [163].
• [Comin' through the Rye], quoted [154].
• Complete Letter-Writer, [6].
• [Contented wi' Little], quoted [126].
• Conviviality, [66], [313].
• Corn Rigs, [75].
• Cowper, [267], [317].
• Crabbe, [267].
• Craigieburn-wood, [111].
• Creech, [45], [50], [52].
• Currie, Doctor, [68].

• Dalrymple, James, [44].
• Dalrymple School, [15].
• Davidson, Betty, [18].
• [Death and Doctor Hornbook], quoted [287].
• [Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie], [80], [82].
• Dedication to Gavin Hamilton, [185]-186.
• Descriptive poetry, [206] ff., [264] ff.
• Dick, J.C., [91]-92, note.
• Dodsley, Robert, [103].
• Douglas, Gavin, [268].
• Dramatic lyrics, [128] ff.
• Drummond of Hawthornden, [72].
• Dumfries, [50], [62]-68.
• Dunbar, William, [81], [241], [316].
• [Duncan Davison], quoted [153].
• [Duncan Gray], quoted [152].
• Dunlop, Mrs. [110].

• Edinburgh, Burns in, [44]-56.
• Edinburgh Magazine, [46].
• Elegies, [294] ff.
• [Elegy on Capt. Matthew Henderson], quoted [298].
• Ellisland, [58]-62.
• English poems of Burns, [73] ff.
• Epigrams, [204], [205].
• [Epistle to a Young Friend], [199], quoted [200].
• [Epistle to Davie], [79], quoted [193], [267].
• Epistle to James Smith, [190], [191].
• Epistle to John Goldie, [179].
• Epistle to John Rankine, [33].
• [Epistle to McMath], [181].
• Epistle to William Simpson, [270].
• Epistles, [38], [190] ff.
• Epitaphs, [204], [205].
• Erskine, Hon. Henry, [45].
• Excise service, [59], [61]-65.

• Farmer's Ingle, [84].
• Ferguson, Dr. Adam, [46].
• Fergusson, Robert, [80], [81], [82], [83], [84], [316].
• Fisher, William, [173].
• Flax-dressing experiment, [23].
• Flint, Christina, [93].
• [For the Sake o' Somebody], quoted [136].
• Freemasons, [46].
• French Revolution, [63]-64.
• From thee, Eliza, I must go, [37].

• Gaelic, [69].
• Gibson, Nancy, [239].
• Glencairn, Lord, [45], [49].
• Glenriddel Manuscript, [60].
• [Go Fetch to me a Pint o' Wine], quoted [88].
• Goethe, [320].
• Goldsmith, [86].
• Gordon, Duchess of, [45], [48].
• Graham of Fintry, [64].
• Gray, [86].
• [Green Grow the Rashes], quoted [123].
• Grose, Captain, [253].

• [Had I the Wyte?], quoted [148].
• [Halloween], [38], [208], quoted [209], [217], [218], [223], [270], [282].
• Hamilton, Gavin, [38], [172], [185].
• Hamilton of Gilbertfield, [81], [82].
• [Handsome Nell]: quoted [20]; criticized by Burns, [21]-22, [103].
• Happy Beggars, [238].
• Haydn, [95].
• Henderson, Captain Matthew, [294].
• Henryson, Robert, [78], [81], [272], [316].
• Heroic couplet in Burns, [268], [269].
• [Highland Mary], quoted [113]-116.
• Highland Mary, [36]-37, [76], [110].
• History of the Bible, [6].
• Hogg, James, [162].
• [Holy Willie's Prayer], [38], quoted [173].
• [How Lang and Dreary], quoted [138].
• Humble Petition of Bruar Water, [51].
• Hume, David, [44].