# Essay on Burns

Author: Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881; Noyes, George Rapall, 1873-1952 [Editor]

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69284

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Essay+on+Burns+Carlyle&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Carlyle's _Essay on Burns_ was first printed in the _Edinburgh Review_ for December, 1828. Though in form a review of the _Life of Robert Burns_, by John Gibson Lockhart, it is really, like many of the articles in the _Edinburgh Review_, an entirely independent work. The present art of book reviewing is a creation of our own times. The English magazines of the eighteenth century were mere publishers' organs, and are inferior to even second-rate periodicals of our own day. The book notices in them are comparable to those that we see in our poorer daily newspapers. The reviewers were usually mere literary hacks, and were content to give a summary of the contents of a book, and then pass jud...

## Chapters

- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/essay-on-burns-69284/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/essay-on-burns-69284/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/essay-on-burns-69284/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/essay-on-burns-69284/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/essay-on-burns-69284/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/essay-on-burns-69284/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/essay-on-burns-69284/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/essay-on-burns-69284/chapters/8/index.md)