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

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).

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