Kilmarnock volume

Kilmarnock volume

The Kilmarnock volume, also known as "Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect", — printed and issued by John Wilson, Kilmarnock, on 31 July 1786, was the first edition of poet Robert Burns' work. It cost 3 s and 600 copies were printed. The volume was dedicated to Gavin Hamilton. The Kilmarnock volume contained, besides satire, a number of poems like "The Twa Dogs" and "The Cotter's Saturday Night," which are vividly descriptive of the Scots peasant life with which he was most familiar; and a group like "Puir Mailie" and "To a Mouse", which, in the tenderness of their treatment of animals, revealed one of the most attractive sides of Burns' personality.

ee also

* Poems chiefly in the Scottish dialect
* Address to the Deil
* To a Mountain Daisy
* Epitaph for James Smith


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