Prose & SongCorrespondence & Poetry

Author: Arun Sood

Retracing Burns’s 1787 Highland Tour: Day One

Today brought us to Bannockburn, Stirling, Dunblane, Ossian’s Grave, Taymouth Castle and Kenmore. On 26th August 1787, Burns wrote to Robert Muir from Stirling:  “just now from Stirling Castle I have seen the setting-sun...

Retracing Burns’s Highland Tour of 1787

   On 25th August 1787 Robert Burns and William Nicol, a Latin master at Edinburgh High School, embarked on a 22-day Highland Tour that covered nearly 600 miles through the central Highlands and as...