Primary

The Poems of Robert Fergusson, ed. Matthew P. McDiarmid, 2 vols. The Scottish Text Society, ser. 3, vols. 21 and 24 (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1954-56).

The Unpublished Poems of Robert Fergusson, ed. William E. Gillis (Edinburgh: McDonald, 1955).

Poems by Allan Ramsay and Robert Fergusson, ed. Alexander M. Kinghorn and Alexander Law, The Association for Scottish Literary Studies, no. 4 (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1974).

Early Editions

Poems by Robert Fergusson (Edinburgh: Ruddiman, 1773).

Poems on Various Subjects, by Robert Fergusson: Part II (Edinburgh: Ruddiman, 1779).

The Poetical Works of Robert Fergusson: With the Life of the Author, ed. David Irving (Glasgow: Chapman and Lang, 1800).

The Works of Robert Fergusson: To which Is Prefixed, a Sketch of the Author's Life [by Alexander Peterkin] (London: Oddy, 1807).

Secondary

Thomas Sommers, The Life of Robert Fergusson, the Scottish Poet (Edinburgh: Stewart, 1803).

William Gillis, "An Authentic Fergusson Portrait," Studies in Scottish Literature 1 (1964): 215-22.

Sydney Goodsir Smith, ed., Robert Fergusson, 1750-1774: Essays by Various Hands to Commemorate the Bicentenary of his Birth (Edinburgh: Nelson, 1952).

James Connor, "Burns's Elder Brother in the Muse," Studies in Scottish Literature 8 (1998): 59-66.

Kenneth Simpson, "Poetic Genre and National Identity: Ramsay, Fergusson and Burns," Studies in Scottish Literature 30 (1998): 31-42.

Alan T. McKenzie, "Robert Fergusson," in Dictionary of Literary Biography: Eighteenth-Century British Poets, Second Series, ed. John Sitter, vol. 109 (Detroit: Broccoli Clark Layman, 1991), pp. 137-48.

F. W. Freeman, Robert Fergusson and the Scots Humanist Compromise (Edinburgh: University Press, 1984).

John MacQueen, "Unenlightened and Early Darkened: Alexander Ross and Robert Fergusson," in The Enlightenment and Scottish Literature, Volume One: Progress and Poetry (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1982), pp. 117-31.

David Daiches, Robert Fergusson, Scottish Writers Series (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1982).

Charles Smith, "A Short Day on The Peak of Fame: The Achievement and Tragedy of Robert Fergusson," Scots Magazine n.s. 102-1 (Oct. 1974): 63-72.

Hugh G. Mackay, "Robert Fergusson's Scots Poetry," Library Review 23 (1971-72), 92-95.

Allan H. MacLaine, Robert Fergusson (New York: Twayne, 1965).

Matthew P. McDiarmid, "A Study of the Poetry of Robert Fergusson," in vol. 1 of his edition, The Poems of Robert Fergusson, pp. 118-98.

James A. Roy, "Robert Fergusson and Eighteenth-Century Scotland," University of Toronto Quarterly 17 (Jan. 1948): 179-89.

John Speirs, "Robert Fergusson," in The Scots Literary Tradition: An Essay in Criticism (London: Chatto & Windus, 1940), pp. 114-23.

John W. Oliver, "Fergusson the Writer Chiel," in Essays in Literature, ed. John Murray (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1936), pp. 1-25.

William Roughead, "A Note on Robert Fergusson," The Juridical Review 30 (1918): 99-126, 194-226.

Alan Taylor, "Scotland's Forgotten Laureate," New Statesman 129 (Jan. 2000):