Editing Robert Burns for the 21st Century: Correspondence and Poetry
Published: 5 September 2023
Professor Gerald Carruthers
'Editing Robert Burns for the Twenty First Century: Correspondence and Poetry' (2017-22) [PI: Gerry Carruthers] will produce two volumes of Poetry and four volumes of Correspondence for the Oxford University Press Edition of the Works of Robert Burns as well as the Oxford Handbook to Robert Burns (40 critical essays amounting to 240,000 words).
The first phase of 'Editing Robert Burns for the Twenty First Century' produced the work for Nigel Leask (ed.), Commonplace Books, Tour Journals and Miscellaneous Prose (2014), Murray Pittock (ed.) The Scots Musical Museum, 2 vols (2018) and Kirsteen McCue, Songs for George Thomson (forthcoming, 2021).
The two AHRC awards for the Burns edition amount to over £2M FEC.
For more information, see the project webpage or the project blog.
First published: 5 September 2023
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