Love and Liberty

The five-pointed star, Edwin Morgan; Robert Burns - the tightrope-walker (the keynote address), David Daitches; "The mair they talk, I'm kend the better" - poems about Robert Burns, G. Ross Roy; television and press treatment of Burns's anniversary - 1995, David Hutchison; Burns in Japanese, J. Derrick McClure; nature's social union and man's dominion - Burns the poet after 200 years, Donald Low; "Castalia's stank" - Burns and rhetoric, R.D.S. Jack; Hogg as poet - a successor to Burns?, Douglas Mack; Burns and the Scottish Renaissance, Richard Price; Burns and Scottish poetry, Maurice Lindsay; churches built to please the priest - the dialectics of morality in Burns's poetry; sacred freedom - Presbyterian radicalism and the politics of Robert Burns, Liam McIlvanney; contrary scriptings - implied national narratives in Burns and Smollett, Thomas R. Preston; Burns and the siecle des lumieres, Ian S. Ross; Burns and the Scottish critical tradition, Gerard Carruthers; Burns and Gaelic, Roderick Macdonald; Robert Burns, patriot, Paul H. Scott; Burns and American liberty, Roger Fechner; sexual politics or the poetry of desire - Catherine Carswell's "The Life of Robert Burns", Margery McCulloch; Burns and the folk-singer, Sheila Douglas; Burns and the Jacobite song, Murray Pittock; "The Wee Apollo" - Burns and Oswald, John Purser; Burns, genius and major poetry, Thomas Crawford.