Document Type
Chapter
Subject Area(s)
Scottish literature, Scottish poetry
Description
A short introduction to the background and history of one of Burns's greatest and most dramatic poems
Publication Info
Reprinted from 2018, pages 73-76.
(c) G. Ross Roy, 1979. First published as introduction to Tam o’ Shanter, by Robert Burns, from the Afton Manuscript, Scottish Poetry Reprints, 4 (London: Quarto, 1979; second edition, Kingston: Surrey Instant Print, 1979).
Rights
(c) G. Ross Roy, 1979. First published as introduction to Tam o’ Shanter, by Robert Burns, from the Afton Manuscript, Scottish Poetry Reprints, 4 (London: Quarto, 1979; second edition, Kingston: Surrey Instant Print, 1979).