![]() ![]() ![]() In addition, The Canongate Burns is an unwieldy tome that is over a thousand pages long, lacking a table of contents that lists individual poems as well as a glossary and detailed index. ![]() That volume stirred considerable controversy in the Burns Studies community, most notably for its inclusion of poems and songs that were considered of dubious origins by previous editors. Despite the continuing international popularity of Robert Burns, as well as growing critical interest in the poet since the two hundred and fiftieth birthday celebrations held in 2009, there has not been a new one-volume scholarly edition of the works since The Canongate Burns (2001), edited by Andrew Noble and Patrick Scott Hogg. ![]()
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