resolves to emigrate, 27, 30, 32, 34;
Kilmarnock edition of the poems published, 30-34;
literary earnings, 32, 58-59, 85, 152;
immediate popularity, 33-34, 37, 39;
his manners, 36;
first winter in Edinburgh, 42-59;
literary and legal lights, 44-46;
the lion of the season, 48-57;
his appearance, 49-50, 118, 170;
tavern life, 57-58;
second edition of the poems, 58-59;
Border and Highland tours, 60, 63-78;
Burns's descriptions of scenery, 71-72;
disappointing poetic fruits, 73;
knighted by Mrs. Bruce, 78;
second winter in Edinburgh, 79-93;
reasons for his stay, 79;
hypochondria and despondency, 81;
Mrs. M'Lehose, 82-84;
appointment in the excise, 84;
marriage, 85-88;
change in the attitude of Edinburgh society, 89-90;
some reasons for it, 90-92;
life at Ellisland, 94-134;
Burns's farm, 95;
discomfort and despondency, 96-97;
happiest period of his life, 99, 102;
house at Ellisland, 101-102;
as an exciseman, 105-106;
restlessness and discontent, 113, 115-116;
_Tam o' Shanter_, 120-122;
dramatic aspirations, 126;
gives up his farm, 133;
migration to Dumfries, 135;
downward course, 138, 162, 164, 172;
social discredit, 139, 173;
politics, 139, 142-149, 161, 168-169, 171;
friendship with the Liddels, 140, 162, 179-180;
Mrs. M'Lehose reappears, 140-141;
relations with Johnson and Thomson, 150-154, 159;
excursion into Galloway, 156-157;
an unhappy time, 161-164;
declining health, 165, 174;
joins the volunteers, 169-170;
last illness, 176-179;
poverty and anxiety, 180-184;
death, 185;
Burns's grave, 186-187;
character, 188, 189.
As a poet:
satires, 19-20, 31-32,
epistles, 23,
pure landscape not his forte, 71, 72,
at his best in the Scottish dialect, 73, 151,
tenderness towards animals, 106-108, 179,
Bacchanalian songs, 110-112,
Burns in the hour of inspiration, 121-122,
elegies, 123,
circumstance and mental habits forbade long poems, 126,
love songs, 140-141, 160-161,
in the act of composition, 159-160,
piercing insight and large sympathy, 192,
truthfulness of nature, 193,
caustic wit, 193,
the interpreter of Scotland's peasantry, 196,
the restorer of her nationality, 196-197,
catholicity, 197-198,
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