THE ATHENAEUMEssay on BurnsThomas Carlyle
Biography
Essay on Burns
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textThomas Carlyle, a stonemason’s son from Ecclefechan in Dumfriesshire, wrote this essay in 1828 for the Edinburgh Review, as a review of John Gibson Lockhart’s life of the poet. It is less a review than a long argument about what Burns was and what Scotland had made of him. It was reprinted again and again as a school text, as it is here.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 2 hr 5 min
- Where to find it
- The Burns Room
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #69284. In the public domain in the United States.