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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 sees the surliness of a lion or Saracen's head as a simile for the affected fierceness of a Bully and the blandness of a welcoming landlord as a simile for the eternal simper of a Frenchman or a Fiddler. This introduction is the basis for the lines that follow.
Page 22 completes the last five lines written at the Friars Carse Hermitage later version (poem no 223B). Burns continues on this page to note some thoughts triggered from the idea of lines derived from the images on sign-posts. (poem no 244) | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1788-01-01 - 1788-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | The Second Commonplace Book of Robert Bu | Go to resource |
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