Burns’s early Kilmarnock volume

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Burns’s early Kilmarnock volume is the 1786 first published collection of Robert Burns’s poetry, issued in Kilmarnock and crucial in establishing his reputation as Scotland’s national poet.

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Burns’s early Kilmarnock volume canonical 1
Kilmarnock volume 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
poetry collection
alsoKnownAs Kilmarnock Edition
Kilmarnock volume
associatedWith Scottish Enlightenment cultural milieu
author Robert Burns
collectorValue highly prized by book collectors
containsWork A Bard’s Epitaph
Address to the Deil
Despondency: An Ode
Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet
linked to: Epistle to Davie

Epistle to a Young Friend
Halloween
Man was made to Mourn
Scotch Drink
The Author’s Earnest Cry and Prayer
The Cotter’s Saturday Night
The Holy Fair
The Holy Tulzie
The Lament
The Ordination
The Twa Dogs
To a Mountain Daisy
To a Mouse
countryOfPublication Scotland
followedBy Edinburgh edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
format octavo
genre poetry
influenced Romantic poetry
Scottish literature
language English
Scots
notableWorkOf Robert Burns
placeOfPublication Kilmarnock
printingMethod subscription
printRun 612 copies
publicationDate 1786
publisher John Wilson of Kilmarnock
rarity survives in relatively few copies
significance first published collection of Robert Burns’s poetry
helped establish Robert Burns’s reputation as Scotland’s national poet
subject love and relationships
religion and church politics
rural Scottish life
social criticism
title Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect

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Address to the Deil partOf Burns’s early Kilmarnock volume
Burns’s early Kilmarnock volume alsoKnownAs Kilmarnock volume
linked to: Burns’s early Kilmarnock volume