This book sets out to explore the reception of Scotland s best-loved writer Robert Burns in Germany, beginning with Burns s contemporaries in a German state and at a time when instant international fame of foreign writers was yet to develop. The author traces Burns s growing popularity and, for instance, demonstrates how a single line from a foreigner s poem could become the motto of a generation of German revolutionists. Many of Burns s well-known poems do not only figure in this first part but are also the subject of specific case studies in the second. Here works such as -Tam O Shanter- or...