Robert Burns Resources and Material
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The Complete Works of Robert Burns: published in 1841, this book contains his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence.
With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham. Includes all Burns' letters.
(NOTE: This is large file. It may take a minute or two to download).
The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Letters of Robert Burns, by Robert Burns
#3 in their series by Robert Burns.
*The Project Gutenberg eText of Poems
and Songs of Robert Burns
#1 in their series by Robert Burns.
Robert Burns in Google Books
The Google search engine has an amazing book repository
where thousands of old books have been digitised. This a tremendous
free resource for students of Robert Burns. We have provided links
to some of these below.
Bear in mind that the pages of these books have
actually been photographed rather than the text being transcribed
so they do take some time to load if you don't have a good internet
connection. Enjoy!
The
Complete Works Of Robert Burns (1855)
Poems,
chiefly in the Scottish dialect (1824)
The
Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism
of his Writings (The James Currie book from
1835)
Reliques
of Robert Burns: Consisting Chiefly of Original Letters, Poems,
and Critical Observations (The R. H. Cromek
book from 1809)
The
Works of Robert Burns: With His Life (Allan
Cunningham 1834)
Robert Burns:
As a Poet, and as a Man (Samuel Tyler 1848)
The
Works of Robert Burns: Containing
His Life (By John Lockhart 1849)
The
Correspondence Between Burns and Clarinda: With a Memoir of Mrs.
McLehose (1843 Arranged and edited by her grandson W.C. McLehose)
Robert Burns:
A Memoir (1858 Rev. James White)
Life
of Robert Burns (1859 Thomas
Carlyle)
The
Centennial Birth-day of Robert Burns (1860
As Celebrated by the Burns Club of the City of New York)
A
Letter to a Friend of Robert Burns (1816 William Wordsworth)
Celebration
of the Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Robert Burns (1859
The Burns Club of Boston USA)
The
Scottish Minstrel: Being a Complete Collection of Burns' Songs (1818)
A
Critique on the Poems of Robert Burns (1812 George Gleig)
