Editing Robert Burns for the 21st Century – An AHRC-funded Project to ...

As some of you will have seen via our twitter account, we took Burns’s cantata ‘The Jolly Beggars’ to London last week. If you look back through our ERB21C blogs you’ll note that this, in its first musical printing, is part of the forthcoming edition...

Guest blog by Professor Patrick Scott: ‘At Roslin Inn’
Burns editors face a special problem when a poem was not published by Burns himself and there is no manuscript in his hand. The problem is compounded when the poem in question is a minor or occasional poem, and short enough to have been circulated orally...

Dr Carol Baraniuk (Research Associate at the Centre for Robert Burns Studies):
Much of the current work of research staff on Burns C21 involves the transcription of manuscripts associated with Burns’s correspondence. It’s a process requiring patience and meticulous attention to detail but one which is nicely balanced by the frisson...

Guest Blog by Patrick Scott: Dr. John Mackenzie in the Irvine Miscellany
Even among Burnsians who regularly handle the standard scholarly sources, few are fully aware just how often the standard sources are themselves derivative and inaccurate.  Even if someone has noted an error, penciled a correction into Egerer or Kinsley...