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The Lounger: a periodical paper, containing a review of Robert Burns

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Archive number
NTS/02/25/BRN/07/03
Alt. number
3.2498
Date
9 December 1786
On display
Yes
Creator
Mackenzie, Henry (Author)
Creech, William (Publisher)

Description

The Lounger: a periodical paper, containing a review of Robert Burns. Contains a review of Burns’s first book by the author Henry Mackenzie.

The review praises Burns a ‘heaven-taught ploughman’ and declares that his Poems are a work of genius. Henry Mackenzie was reportedly one of Burns’s favorite authors.


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