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Title: Robert Burns

Author: Principal Shairp

Release Date: May 5, 2007 [EBook #21330]

Language: English

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ROBERT BURNS

BY

PRINCIPAL SHAIRP,

PROFESSOR OF POETRY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

London

MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited

NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1906

_All rights reserved_

_First Edition April 1879_

_Reprinted December 1879, 1883, 1887, 1895, 1902, 1906_

CONTENTS.

Page
CHAPTER I.

Youth in Ayrshire 1

CHAPTER II.

First Winter in Edinburgh 42

CHAPTER III.

Border and Highland Tours 60

CHAPTER IV.

Second Winter in Edinburgh 79

CHAPTER V.

Life at Ellisland 94

CHAPTER VI.

Migration To Dumfries 135

CHAPTER VII.

Last Years 155

CHAPTER VIII.

Character, Poems, Songs 188

INDEX 209

ROBERT BURNS. (p. 001)

CHAPTER I.

YOUTH IN AYRSHIRE.

Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we
recede from them; and the rate at which they grow in the estimation of
men is in some sor