¹ Festival in Commemoration of Robert Burns; and to promote a subscription to erect a National Monument to his Memory at Edinburgh: held at the Freemason’s Tavern in London, on Saturday, 5 June 1819 (London, 1819), 8.

² Festival in Commemoration of Robert Burns, 8.

³ Ibid., 14.

⁴ J. de Lancey Ferguson and G. Ross Roy, eds., The Letters of Robert Burns, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1985), vol. 1, 136.

⁵ For the pre-Scots literary traditions see Thomas Owen Clancy (ed.), Triumph Tree: Scottand’s Earliest Poetry (Edinburgh, 1998); for the earlier Gaelic tradition, William Gillies, ‘Gaelic Literature in the Later Middle Ages’, in Clancy and Pittock (eds.), The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature, vol.1 (Edinburgh, 2007).

⁶ Works of Allan Ramsay, eds. B. Martin and J. W. Oliver, Scottish Text Society, 6 vols., 19 (Edinburgh, 1945), vol. i, xviii.

⁷ David Masson, Essays Biographical and Critical (Cambridge, 1856), 399.

⁸ Ibid., 408.

⁹ Watson’s Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems Both Ancient and Modern (1706–11; Glasgow, 1869), Pt. 1.

¹⁰ William Donaldson, Popular Literature in Victorian Scotland: Language, Fiction and the Press (Aberdeen, 1986); Tom Leonard, Radical Renfrew: Poetry from the French Revolution to the First World War (Edinburgh, 1990).

¹¹ Howard Gaskill, ed., The Poems of Ossian and Related Works (Edinburgh, 1996), 348.

¹² Howard Gaskill, ed., Fragments of Ancient Poetry, poem IX, 19.

¹³ Ibid., 21.

¹⁴ James Beattie, The Minstrel (1771), Bk. 1, xiii.

¹⁵ Ibid., Bk. 1, xlvi.

¹⁶ Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1810), from J. Logie Robertson, ed., The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott (Oxford, 1894), 30, Canto IV, conclusion.

¹⁷ John Home, Douglas (Edinburgh, 1757), Act I, scene i, 7.

¹⁸ Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto IV, ii.

¹⁹ Ibid., Canto VI, ii.

²⁰ The Works of Robert Fergusson to which is prefaced a Sketch of the Author’s Life (1807; Edinburgh, 1970), 290.

²¹ Andrew Noble and Patrick Scott Hogg, eds., The Canongate Burns (Edinburgh, 2001), 90.

²² Lewis Grassic Gibbon, A Scots Quair (London, 1946), 174.

²³ Tobias Smollett, Humphry Clinker (1771; London, 1985), 277.

²⁴ Walter Scott, ‘The Lady of the Lake’ (1810), Canto I, xiv, in The Collected Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, ed. J. Logie Robertson (Oxford, 1894), 211.

²⁵ W. E. K. Anderson, ed., The Journal of Sir Walter Scott (Edinburgh, 1998), 131 (14 March 1826).

²⁶ James Sambrook, ed., James Thomson, The Seasons and The Castle of Indolence (Oxford, 1989), ‘Autumn’, 112–13, ll. 876–7.

²⁷ Ibid., 91, ll. 72–8, 90–4.

²⁸ Ibid., 92, ll. 109–11, 119–21, 141.

²⁹ P. D. Garside, ed., Walter Scott, Waverley (Edinburgh, 2007), ch. 44, 229.

³⁰ David Hume, The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688, 8 vols. (London, 1767), vol. 7, ch. lvii, 28–9.

³¹ Fiona Price, ed., Jane Porter, The Scottish Chiefs (1810; Peterborough, Ontario, 2007), 45.

³² L. A. Selby-Bigge, ed., David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739; Oxford, 1888), Bk. I, pt. iv, sect. vi, 253.

³³ D. D. Raphael and A. L. Macfie, eds., Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Indianapolis, 1984), I, ii, 5.4, 43.

³⁴ Walter Scott, Waverley, ch. 46, 236.

³⁵ See Bill Findlay, ed., A History of Scottish Theatre (Edinburgh, 1998), ch. 4, Barbara Bell, ‘The Nineteenth Century’, 144 ff.

³⁶ Scott himself saw Rossini’s Ivanhoe in Paris in 1826, only seven years after its original publication: see John Sutherland, The Life of Walter Scott (Oxford, 1995), 310; and also Jerome Mitchell, Walter Scott Operas (Tuscaloosa, AL, 1977).

³⁷ Ian Duncan, ed., Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe (Oxford, 1998), ‘Introduction’, 4.

³⁸ James Kinsley, ed., John Galt, Annals of the Parish (1821; Oxford, 1967), ch. xxxii, ‘1791’, 137.

³⁹ Frederic Page, ed., Byron: Poetical Works, a New Edition, corrected by John Jump (Oxford, 1970), ‘Don Juan’, Canto X, xvii, 781.

⁴⁰ Page, ed., Byron: Poetical Works, ‘English Bards and Scotch Reviewers’, 83–4, 124–6, 143–8.

⁴¹ Page, ed., Byron: Poetical Works, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto I, xxxvi, 186.

⁴² David Hewitt and Alison Lumsden, eds., Walter Scott, The Heart of Mid-Lothian (Edinburgh, 2004), ch. 53, 467.

⁴³ David Masson, Recent British Philosophy (London, 1865), 148.

⁴⁴ George MacDonald, Phantastes (1858; London, 1983), ch. 2, 7.

⁴⁵ Ian Campbell, ed., James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems (1874; Glasgow, 2008), ‘XIV’, 29–30.

⁴⁶ Ibid., ‘IV’, 12.

⁴⁷ Ibid.

⁴⁸ Robert Louis Stevenson, Markheim, Jekyll and the Merry Men (Edinburgh, 2004; 1886), 292.

⁴⁹ Ibid., 247.

⁵⁰ Glenda Norquay, ed., R. L. Stevenson on Fiction: An Anthology of Literary and Critical Essays (Edinburgh, 1999), Section I, 85.

⁵¹ J. G. Frazer, The Golden Bough (London, 1922), 56.

⁵² Neil Gunn, The Serpent (London, 1978; 1943), 25.

⁵³ Hugh MacDiarmid, ‘Seamless Garment’, Complete Poems, 2 vols. (1931; London, 1978), vol. 1, 311–12. Reproduced with permission from Carcanet Press Ltd.

⁵⁴ Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite, third part of A Scots Quair (London, 1946), 395.

⁵⁵ Edwin Muir, An Autobiography (London, 1954), 113; the first six chapters were published as The Story and the Fable (London, 1940).

⁵⁶ Ibid., 43.

⁵⁷ Robin Jenkins, The Changeling (Edinburgh, 1989; 1958), 17.

⁵⁸ Alasdair Gray, Lanark (Edinburgh, 1981), 160.

⁵⁹ Nan Shepherd, The Weatherhouse (Edinburgh, 1988; 1930), 172–3.

⁶⁰ Eric Linklater, Magnus Merriman (Edinburgh, 1990; 1934), 299.

⁶¹ Neil Gunn, Highland River (Edinburgh, 1994; 1937), 241.

⁶² Sorley MacLean, ‘Hallaig’, From Wood to Ridge (Manchester, 1989), 229, Reproduced with permission from Carcanet Press Ltd.

⁶³ Norman MacCaig, ‘Return to Scalpay’, Collected Poems (London, 1990), 280.

⁶⁴ Cairns Craig and Randall Stevenson, eds., Twentieth-Century Scottish Drama (Edinburgh, 2001; 1943), 241.

⁶⁵ Muriel Spark, The Hothouse by the East River (Harmondsworth, 1975; 1973), 63.

⁶⁶ Ibid., 110.

⁶⁷ Muriel Spark, Symposium (Harmondsworth, 1991; 1990), 81.

⁶⁸ Tom Leonard, Intimate Voices: Selected Work 1965–1983 (Newcastle, 1984), 120.

⁶⁹ Edwin Morgan, Collected Poems (Manchester, 1990), 156. Reproduced with permisson from Carcanet Press Ltd.

⁷⁰ James Kelman, How late it was, how late (London, 1994), 172.

⁷¹ John Byrne, Your Cheatin’ Heart in Cairns Craig and Randall Stevenson, eds., Twentieth-Century Scottish Drama: An Anthology (Edinburgh, 2001), 577.

⁷² The ‘doomsday scenario’ was one in which the Conservatives had a permanent majority at Westminster on the basis of English votes, while Scotland and Wales voted consistently for Labour, and thus the majority of Scots and Welsh went unrepresented at a UK level.

⁷³ Morgan, Collected Poems, 443.