Robert Burns & Friends
Introduction
This volume of Studies in Scottish Literature, edited by Patrick Scott and Kenneth Simpson, was originally issued as a separate volume, Robert Burns & Friends, Essays by W. Ormiston Roy Fellows (2012), a festschrift presented to G. Ross Roy on his 88th birthday. It is being included here as SSL 37, both in memory of Professor Roy and to make the essays in it more generally accessible.Front Matter
Prelims, Prefatory Note to SSL 37, Preface to Robert Burns & Friends
Patrick G. Scott, Anthony Jarrells, and Kenneth G. Simpson
Articles
G. Ross Roy: A Tribute
Kenneth G. Simpson
Burns's Two Memorials to Fergusson
Carol M. McGuirk
Footnoted Folklore: Robert Burns's "Hallowe'en"
Corey E. Andrews
Robert Burns as Dramatic Poet
R. D. S. Jack
"Tongues Turned Inside Out": The Reception of "Tam o' Shanter"
Gerard Carruthers
"Epistolary Performances": Burns and the Arts of the Letter
Kenneth G. Simpson
Back to Burns
Fred Freeman
On Editing The Merry Muses
Valentina Bold
James Hogg's First Encounter with Burns's Poetry
Douglas S. Mack
Alexander McLachlan: the "Robert Burns" of Canada
Edward J. Cowan
A Passion for Scholarship & Collecting: The G. Ross Roy Collection of Robert Burns & Scottish Literature
Thomas Keith
Publications by G. Ross Roy, A Checklist, 1953-2011
Patrick G. Scott and Justin Mellette