|
Date: |
|
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.
Burns on receiving Thomson's criticism parried it by saying he would not give them a polish arguing that 'Their uncouth simplicity was, as they say of wines, their RACE'.
Page 34 starts a new song to the old tune Ewe Bughts Marion, which Burns wrote at the time he was thinking of going to Jamaica in 1786 while he was courting Highland Mary. The verses were sent to Thompson in 1792 to be included in his Collection of Scots songs but he did not do so until many years later. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1789-01-01 - 1789-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | The Second Commonplace Book of Robert Bu | Go to resource |
|
|