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Thread #137801 Message #3152994
Posted By: Joe_F
12-May-11 - 05:45 PM
Thread Name: Origins: The Shepherd's Wife (Robert Burns?)
Subject: RE: Origins: 'The Shepherd's Wife'...Robert Burns??
FWIW, it's No. 367 in _Burns: Poems & Songs_ (James Kinsley, Ed.; Oxford U.P., 1969), which does not include songs such as those in the _Merry Muses of Caledonia_ that were merely collected by him. However, the preface gives fair warning of the vast penumbra of the Burns canon: "Where there is no present certainty, I have thought it right to be cautiously liberal...".