The best laid schemes
Subtitle: selected poetry and prose of Robert Burns
By: edited by Robert Crawford and Christopher MacLachlan
Contributors: Crawford, Robert, 1959-; MacLachlan, C. J. M.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780691142944; 9780691142951
Work titles: Selections
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-264) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Poems. My father was a farmer; title: To ruin; title: The death and dying words of poor Mailie, the author's own pet yowe, an unco mornfu' tale; title: Poor Mailie's elegy; title: Mary Morison; title: On a noisy polemic; title: For the author's father; title: A fragment [When Guilford Good our pilot stood]; title: Address to the Unco Guid, or the rigidly righteous; title: O leave novels; title: Green grow the rashes : a fragment; title: Epistle to Davie, a brother poet; title: Holy Willie's prayer; title: Death and Doctor Hornbook : a true story; title: Epistle to J. L[aprai]k, an old Scotch bard; title: The vision; title: To a mouse; title: The holy fair; title: The twa dogs, a tale; title: The Cotter's Saturday night; title: Address to the Deil; title: Brose and butter; title: To a louse; title: A cantata [Love and liberty or The jolly beggars]; title: On a Scotch bard gone to the West Indies; title: To the author [ Second epistle to Davie]; title: [Lines written on a Bank of Scotland one guinea note]; title: [Address to Beelzebub]; title: A dream; title: The brigs of Ayr : a poem; title: The northern lass; title: Address to Edinburgh; title: To a haggis; title: A fragment [There was a lad]; title: [Inscribed around Fergusson's portrait]; title: [Lines on Fergusson]; title: Written by somebody on the window of an inn at Stirling on seeing the royal palace in ruins; title: Ca' the ewes to the Knowes [first version]; title: I love my Jean; title: O, were I on Parnassus Hill; title: Tam Glen; title: Auld Lang Syne; title: Louis what reck I by thee; title: Robin Shure in Hairst; title: Nine inch will please a lady; title: Afton water; title: [Epistle to Dr. Blacklock]; title: On Captn. Grose's present peregrinations through Scotland collecting the antiquities of that kingdom; title: My love she's but a lassie yet; title: My heart's in the highlands; title: John Anderson my Jo; title: Tam o'Shanter : a tale; title: The banks o'Doon; title: Ae fond kiss; title: Such a parcel of rogues in a nation; title: The de'el's awa wi' th' exciseman; title: Highland Mary; title: The rights of woman; title: Why should na poor people mow; title: Whistle & I'll come to you my lad; title: Ode [for General Washington's birthday]; title: Bruce to his troops on the eve of the Battle of Bannock-burn; title: Act sederunt o' the court o' session; title: A red red rose; title: Ca' the yowes to the Knowes [second version]; title: For a' that & a' that; title: The Dumfries volunteers; title: The heron ballads I; title: To the tooth-ach; title: [Oh wert though in the cauld blast]; title: The solemn league and covenant; title: The Selkirk grace; title: Tam Lin; title: Comin thro' the rye; title: Charlie he's my darling; title: The trogger; title: The tree of liberty; title: Rediscovered poems. Logie o' Buchan; title: I courted a lassie; title: My steps fate on a mad conjuncture thrust; title: Here is to the king, sir; title: Tho' life's gay scenes delight no more; title: Prose. Five extracts from Burns's First commonplace book, 1783-85; title: Preface [To Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect, 1786]; title: Dedication [To Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect, 1787]; title: Extract from Burns's journal of his border tour; title: Letter to Dr. John Moore, 2 August 1787; title: Letter to Agnes McLehose, 19 January 1788; title: Letter to Agnes McLehose, 25 January 1788; title: Letter to Robert Ainslie, 3 March 1788; title: Extract from a letter to Burns from Agnes McLehose; title: Letter to Dr. John Moore, 4 January 1789; title: Extracts from a letter to Mrs. Frances Dunlop of Dunlop, 12 January 1795; title: Letter to James Armour, 10 July 1796.