SOURCE: "The 'Annus Mirabilis,' 1785," in Robert Burns and the 18th-Century Revival of Scottish Vernacular Poetry, Aberdeen University Press, 1969, pp. 169-89.
In the following excerpt Angus-Butterworth examines the histories and inspirations of several of Burns's famous poems.
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