Ode For General Washington's Birthday, by Robert Burns
Key details
- Archive number
- NTS/02/25/BRN/01/122
- Alt. number
- 3.6357
- Date
- 25 June 1794
- On display
- Yes
- Creator
- Burns, Robert (Author)
- Archive number
- NTS/02/25/BRN/01/122
- Alt. number
- 3.6357
- Date
- 25 June 1794
- On display
- Yes
- Creator
- Burns, Robert (Author)
Description
Ode For General Washington's Birthday, by Robert Burns.
Begins: "No spartan tube, no Attic shell". The last 18 lines. Here, Robert portrays Washington as an American William Wallace – ridding his country of the ‘iron rod’ of English rule – and wonders where a new Scottish liberator might come from.
Archive information
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Letters from and to Robert Burns
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a sub-fonds is a subdivision in the archival material)
- Ode For General Washington's Birthday, by Robert Burns
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