Document Type
Article
Subject Area(s)
Scottish literature, textual editing
Abstract
This paper provides an overview of the history, sources, and editorial approach for the first-ever collected edition of the letters written to the Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759-1796). Originally conceived by the late Prof. G. Ross Roy of the University of South Carolina over fifty years ago, and more recently planned as a joint venture with the late Kenneth Simpson of the Universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow, it is now in progress under new editors at South Carolina, as a distinct preliminary stage in work on the correspondence volumes for the new AHRC-funded Clarendon edition of the collected works of Robert Burns, based at the University of Glasgow. A preliminary edition of Letters Addressed to Robert Burns, 1779-1796, will be separately published in both print and digital formats to provide access while the fuller Correspondence is in progress.
Publication Info
Preprint version Burns Chronicle, ed. Bill Dawson, 2014.
"Dear Burns": Editing the Other Side of Burns's Correspondence; this prepublication version, (c) Joseph DuRant and Patrick Scott, 2014. Published version, (c) Burns Chronicle and the Robert Burns World Federation, 2015.
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"Dear Burns": Editing the Other Side of Burns's Correspondence; this prepublication version, (c) Joseph DuRant and Patrick Scott, 2014. Published version, (c) Burns Chronicle and the Robert Burns World Federation, 2015.