Dick Gaughan sings “Song, Composed in August”, by #RobertBurns

THE HARVARD TAPES, 1982

#Scottish #literature #poetry #lovepoetry #naturepoetry #naturewriting #RobertBurns #18thCentury #folksong #folkmusic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bITK-LYjIlU

Now westlin winds and slaught’ring guns
Bring Autumn’s pleasant weather;
The moorcock springs, on whirring wings,
Amang the blooming heather…

—Robert Burns, “Song, Composed in August”
in POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT
digitised by the National Library of Scotland

#Scottish #literature #poetry #lovepoetry #naturepoetry #naturewriting #RobertBurns #18thCentury

https://digital.nls.uk/poems-chiefly-in-the-scottish-dialect/archive/74571596#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=230&xywh=-1559%2C-233%2C5617%2C4651

Tonight at 19:00 (GMT) I get to show you what I was up to wi pals yesterday on our day trip from #NewarkCastle, through #BurnsCountry, to #SanquharCastle ☺️

https://youtu.be/vQgoYnu6G_I

#Greenock #RobertBurns #Alloway #ElectricBrae #Culzean #Sanquhar #AcciesTours #RSHOutAndAbout

🦄🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🚗💜

The story of Adam Forrester describes a Witches Sabbat taking place in the Kirk in St John's Town of Dalry, and was very likely an inspiration to Robert Burns for Tam O' Shanter. The original story though, comes with a covenanting twist.

#history #video #galoway #scotland #witches #witch #covenanters #robertburns

http://youtube.com/watch?v=EiulNRIbxPw&feature=youtu.be https://crowkitchentales.wordpress.com/2023/08/02/saint-johns-town-of-dalry-the-witches-sabbat/

The Man Who Printed Burns’s First Book
Thurs 27 July, online via the Robert Burns World Federation
– tickets by donation

Prof Patrick Scott explores the story of John Wilson, the young Kilmarnock bookseller who first printed Robert Burns’s POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT (1786)

#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #poetry #18thCentury #BookHistory

@litstudies

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-man-who-printed-burnss-first-book-prof-patrick-scott-tickets-637144916597

“This Sonnet I have written in a strange mood, half asleep. I know not how it is, the Clouds, the sky, the Houses, all seem anti Grecian & anti Charlemagnish—”

Fame & Judgement: Keats at Burns’s Tomb (1818)

#Scottish #literature #poetry #RobertBurns #JohnKeats #romanticism

https://keatslettersproject.com/correspondence/fame-and-judgement-keats-at-burnss-tomb/

#RobertBurns (1759–1796) died #OTD, 21 July, aged just 37. “A Bard’s Epitaph” is the final poem in the Kilmarnock Edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786).

For more on Burns’s death & funeral, see Glasgow University’s “Editing Robert Burns for the 21st Century” blog:
https://burnsc21.glasgow.ac.uk/robert-burns-and-death/

#Scottish #literature #poetry #18thcentury

Robbie Coltrane reads “The Tree of Liberty” on BBC Sounds:

#Scottish #literature #poetry #revolutionary #RobertBurns
🇫🇷 #BastilleDay

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p03zwz50

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Heard ye o’ the tree o’ France,
I watna what’s the name o’t;
Around it a’ the patriots dance,
Weel Europe kens the fame o’t…

—“The Tree of Liberty”, attributed to Robert Burns (though this is disputed). First published in Chambers’ THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS (1838), “from a MS. in the possession of Mr James Duncan, Mosesfield, near Glasgow.”

#Scottish #literature #poetry #revolutionary #RobertBurns
🇫🇷 #BastilleDay

Text available here:
https://rbwf.org.uk/the-tree-of-liberty/

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New issue of #SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW online via Project MUSE

➡️ Muriel Spark’s Reception History in #Hungary
➡️ Place, Poetry, & Politics: The 17th & #18thCentury Reception of Alexander Montgomerie’s The Cherrie & the Slae
➡️ Toby or not Toby: An Existential Reading of #AliSmith’s There But For The
➡️ Poems Ascribed to #RobertBurns (1801): #WalterScott, John Ballantyne, & ‘Contraband’ Burns
➡️ Representations of China in the Poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid

@litstudies

https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/51201

“At a private dinner, in 1793, when the host proposed the health of William Pitt, [Robert Burns] said, sharply, ‘’Let us drink the health of a greater and better man—George Washington’. The toast of Washington was not drunk, and Burns was sullen for the rest of the evening.”

Arun Sood uncovers a story told by Abolitionist clergyman Henry Ward Beecher in his 1859 “Oration to Burns”
#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #18thcentury #IndependenceDay #4thofJuly #FourthofJuly

https://burnsc21.glasgow.ac.uk/a-toast-for-george-washington-as-well-as-an-ode/

Here is Dick Gaughan performing “Scots Wha Hae”, to an audience that includes Dr #MayaAngelou – from the documentary ANGELOU ON BURNS (first shown on BBC2, 1996)
#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #music
5/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx8hEoJNVdM

Burns wrote that he had been inspired by Bruce’s “glorious struggle for Freedom, associated with the glowing ideas of some other struggles of the same nature, not quite so ancient” – probably a reference to the Radical movement, & to the case of Thomas Muir of Huntershill
#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns
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http://www.thomasmuir.co.uk/thomas_muir_biog.html

#OTD, 24 June 1314, the Scottish army destroyed a much larger English invasion force at #Bannockburn. In 1793 Robert Burns composed “Scots Wha Hae” – originally entitled “Robert Bruce’s March To Bannockburn”

text from Selected Poems by Robert Burns (Penguin 1993)
⚔️🧵
#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns
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James Hutton met Robert Burns in 1787. Later that year, Burns chose to visit some of the sites discussed in Hutton’s THEORY OF THE EARTH. Is there an echo of Hutton’s “deep time”—oceans evaporating, rocks melting—to be heard in Burns’s “A Red, Red Rose” (pub. 1794)?

#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #poetry #Enlightenment #18thcentury #DeepTime
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https://sunnydunny.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/robert-burns-and-geology/

One extra unexpected #Succession finale delight - the singing of a song by #RobertBurns #GreenGrowTheRashesO. A song usually associated with being in praise of women👏

Some renditions:

#EddiReader
Live:
https://youtu.be/2ceQvLX24SE
Album Recording:
https://youtu.be/T72HPzQKFI4

#DougieMacLean
https://youtu.be/0eplPt9bq1g

#MichaelMarra
https://youtu.be/Io-n-WIcj_M

#DeaconBlue
https://youtu.be/EGpOtkPUzGc

Not sure why this melody for #RobertBurns version of Dainty Davie fell out of use. https://youtu.be/dAL8onq05mk @scotlit #scotland

Haggis, neeps & soliloquies

“Shakespeare was a powerful influence on Robert Burns. […] In his letters, Burns turns to Shakespeare on several dozen occasions. I also count as many as 16 references to Shakespeare’s plays in his poetry.”

Prof Gerard Carruthers on the links & commonalities between #RobertBurns & William #Shakespeare

#Scottish #literature #ShakespeareSunday
https://theconversation.com/haggis-neeps-and-soliloquys-the-bonds-that-tie-robert-burns-and-shakespeare-53578

Composition of the Day: Lorrie Headley

Former publican at legendary Fanny by Gaslight and Burlington Berties - now caterer for Bachelors' Club #Tarbolton

https://johncgrant.com/music/lorrie_headley/index.html

#kilmarnock #ayrshire #scotland #tradmusic #music #RobertBurns

Composition of the day: Lauren McKenzie

Lauren has been events manager at Robert Burns Birthplace Museum (National Trust for Scotland) since September 2019

https://www.johncgrant.com/music/lauren_mckenzie/index.html

#robertburns #Scots #Scottish #Cumnock #Ayrshire #Scotland #music #polka #folkmusic #fiddle #bagpipes #lowlandpipes