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From: "Steiner, Margaret Lynn" <msteiner@indiana.edu>
List Editor: Richard Gorrie <rgorrie@UOGUELPH.CA>
Editor's Subject: Re: Burns Query
Author's Subject: Re: Burns Query
Date Written: November 17, 2009 8:54:28 AM EST
Date Posted: Wed, 17 Nov 2009 10:00:05 -0500

I don't have an answer to your query, but you might want to look at Mary Ellen
Brown's book, Burns and Tradition, or perhaps E-mail her at brown2@indiana.edu.

Peace.

	Marge


>I came across a reference to the poetry Burns learned in school.  John
>Murdock, Burns' eighteen-year-old teacher in 1765, says the boys
>committed to memory, "the hymns and other poems of Masson's collection."
> I haven't been able to track this collection down.  I'd like to know
>what Burns had by heart.

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