The Lounger: a periodical paper, containing a review of Robert Burns
Key details
- 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)
- 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.