This volume of essays about the Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759-1796) pays tribute to the distinguished Burns scholar Professor G. Ross Roy. Subjects covered include writers who influenced Burns; aspects of Burns's own writing, friends and contemporaries; and Burns's influence on later writers. The volume also includes essays on Ross Roy's own accomplishments and on the Burns collection he built (now at the University of South Carolina), together with a checklist of his published writings.

This is the first volume in a new series of the leading international journal in its field. It opens with a symposium on the Present State of Scottish Literary Studies with contributions from prominent Scottish, American, and Canadian scholars. The topics of other articles include the continuity of Scottish literature, an 18th-century Scottish ballad collector, the first printer of The Merry Muses of Caledonia, "Scots wha hae" on the Afro-New York Stage, Lockhart's Memoir of Walter Scott, and an unrecorded Robert Burns poetic manuscript. Studies in Scottish Literature was founded and edited...

This volume of Studies in Scottish Literature, with essays about Robert Burns, his contemporaries, and his influence, was originally issued separately as a festschrift for presentation on his 88th birthday to Prof. G. Ross Roy (1924-2013), founder and for nearly fifty years editor of the series. The distinguished list of contributors to the volume have all been former W. Ormiston Roy Visiting Fellows at the University of South Carolina, home of the G. Ross Roy Collection of Robert Burns & Scottish Poetry. Following Professor Roy's death, the volume is being reissued as Studies in Scottish...