|
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.
The poem changes pace half way through this page and moves on to what Burns Titles 'The Epitaph' where he lays out all the merits of his friend with a stanza to account for each of them.
Page 39 - Burns copies the next verses of his Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson (Poem no 239). It is a poem which he says he wrote at about the time of Henderson's death in 1788 but did not complete and came across it 'among some old waste papers' in July 1790 when he finished it. He then copied it with letters to at least four of his friends at that time. | 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 |
|
|