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Description: | Burns when he was in Edinburgh decided to create his second Commonplace Book where he could record his thoughts and compositions as they occurred to him. Commenced on April 9th 1787, its pages are numbered from 1 to 40 with pages 23-26 missing. The bulk of the pages contain copies of poems, which he saved for later use, and his personal reflections are confined to the first dozen or so pages.
He wants to share his remarks not thinking of them as a solitary pleasure, but feels the world is unobservant and expresses some doubt about the wisdom of baring ones soul to the public lest it leads to loss of respect or worse become a matter of regret.
Page 1 is where he explains his reasons for writing his second Commonplace book. Being new to Edinburgh and from country origins he feels he must capture his impressions while they are fresh in his mind having been there some months already. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1787-01-01 - 1787-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | The Second Commonplace Book of Robert Bu | Go to resource |
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