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Title: Robert Burns
Famous Scots Series

Author: Gabriel Setoun

Release Date: December 20, 2009 [EBook #30721]

Language: English

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ROBERT BURNS

[Illustration:

ROBERT
BURNS

BY
GABRIEL
SETOUN

FAMOUS
.SCOTS.
.SERIES.

PUBLISHED BY
OLIPHANT ANDERSON
& FERRIER . EDINBURGH
AND LONDON

]

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The designs and ornaments of this volume are by Mr. Joseph Brown, and
the printing from the press of Morrison & Gibb Limited, Edinburgh.

_June 1896._

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CONTENTS

PAGE

CHAPTER I

BIRTH AND EDUCATION 7

CHAPTER II

LOCHLEA AND MOSSGIEL 25

CHAPTER III

THE SERIES OF SATIRES 40

CHAPTER IV

THE KILMARNOCK EDITION 56

CHAPTER V

THE EDINBURGH EDITION 73

CHAPTER VI

BURNS'S TOURS 92

CHAPTER VII

ELLISLAND 111

CHAPTER VIII

DUMFRIES 128

CHAPTER IX

SUMMARY AND ESTIMATE 148

ROBERT BURNS

CHAPTER I

BIRTH AND EDUCATION

Of the many biographies of Robert Burns that have been written, most of
them laboriously and carefully, perhaps not one gives so luminous and
vivid a portrait, so lifelike and vigorous an impression of the
personality of the poet and the man, as the picture the author has given
of himself in his own writings. Burns's poems from first to last are,
almost without exception, the literary