The Art of Robert Burns

These essays set out to provide new literary light on Robert Burns. The authors include: Iain Crichton Smith on Burn's lyrical poetry; John C. Weston on the satires; Scott Wilson on the epistles; Caterina Ericson-Roos on the songs; Kenneth Simpson on the letters; David Muirison on the language; Ronald Jack on his use of bawdy; and Andrew Noble on his relationship to English Romanticism.