Primary

The Canongate Burns: The Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns ed Patrick Scott Hogg and Andrew Noble, Canongate 2001

The Kilmarnock Edition of the Poetical Works of Robert Burns, Special Presentation edition, Scottish Daily Express, Glasgow 1938

Life and Works of Robert Burns 4 vols ed Robert Chambers and William Wallace, Edinburgh 1896

Secondary

Bateman, Raymond Robert Burns, Twayne, Boston 1987

Carswell, Catherine Life of Robert Burns Canongate Classic, Edinburgh 1990

Crawford, Thomas Burns: A Study of the Poems and Songs Canongate Academic, Edinburgh 1994

Daiches, David Robert Burns : The Poet Saltire Society, Edinburgh 1984

Ferguson, J De Lancy Pride and the Passion: Robert Burns Oxford, New York 1939

Hogg, Patrick Scott Robert Burns: The Lost Poems Clydeside Press, Glasgow 1997

Simpson, Kenneth Love and Liberty: Robert Burns : A Bicentenery Celebration Tuckwell Press Edinburgh 1997