Whether male or female, loyalist or radical, urban or rural, literati or autodidacts, Scottish Lowland poets in the age of Burns adamantly refuse to imagine a single British nation. Instead, they pose the question of “Scotland” as a revolutionary category, always subject to creative destruction and reformation.

Introduction
            Lowland Scottish Poetry in the "Age of Burns"
1          Burns's Ayrshire "Bardies": John Lapraik and David Sillar
2          Burns and the Women "Peasant Poets," Janet Little and Isobel Pagan
3          Alexander Wilson and the Price of Radicalism
4          Lady Nairne, Burns's Jacobite Other
5          "In the Shadow of Burns": Robert Tannahill
6          Burns and the Jacobins, James Kennedy and Alexander Geddes
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index