Post by Geoff on Feb 4, 2010 18:32:31 GMT -5
LOCHLEA, Ayrshire
Farm 2m. NW of Mauchline, off the B744, where Burns and his brothers and sisters lived with their parents from 1777 to their father's death in 1784. Some of the poems and songs he wrote here were collected in Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786). Burns left to study flax dressing in 1781 as the farm could not provide a living for so many people, and on his return he found his father gravely ill and the farm failing.
www.jrank.org/literature/pages/13578/Lochlea-(pr-L%C5%8F%CF%87%CB%88l%C4%AD)-Ayrshire.html#ixzz0ec4VhRzg
Originally Mossgaville
MOSSGIEL, Ayrshire
The farm (rebuilt) 1m. N of Mauchline on the Tarbolton road, rented by Robert Burns and his brother Gilbert from Gavin Hamilton, a fellow Freemason, after their father's death in 1784. Burns wrote much of his best work at a table under the skylight in the attic he shared with his brother. The mouse he disturbed with his plough, the daisy, and ‘poor Maillie’, the old sheep who had fallen on her back, all encountered during his work on the farm, were the subjects of the verses he wrote down at night. Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786) was published in Kilmarnock to provide the passage money for him and Mary Campbell, ‘Highland Mary’, to emigrate, but its success and her death kept him in Scotland. Jean Armour, whose name had so often been linked to his in searing reproofs from the pulpit at Mauchline, became his wife in 1788, and the whole family left the farm the next year.
www.jrank.org/literature/pages/13833/Mossgiel-Ayrshire.html#ixzz0fqNFMp7n
Farm 2m. NW of Mauchline, off the B744, where Burns and his brothers and sisters lived with their parents from 1777 to their father's death in 1784. Some of the poems and songs he wrote here were collected in Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786). Burns left to study flax dressing in 1781 as the farm could not provide a living for so many people, and on his return he found his father gravely ill and the farm failing.
www.jrank.org/literature/pages/13578/Lochlea-(pr-L%C5%8F%CF%87%CB%88l%C4%AD)-Ayrshire.html#ixzz0ec4VhRzg
Originally Mossgaville
MOSSGIEL, Ayrshire
The farm (rebuilt) 1m. N of Mauchline on the Tarbolton road, rented by Robert Burns and his brother Gilbert from Gavin Hamilton, a fellow Freemason, after their father's death in 1784. Burns wrote much of his best work at a table under the skylight in the attic he shared with his brother. The mouse he disturbed with his plough, the daisy, and ‘poor Maillie’, the old sheep who had fallen on her back, all encountered during his work on the farm, were the subjects of the verses he wrote down at night. Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786) was published in Kilmarnock to provide the passage money for him and Mary Campbell, ‘Highland Mary’, to emigrate, but its success and her death kept him in Scotland. Jean Armour, whose name had so often been linked to his in searing reproofs from the pulpit at Mauchline, became his wife in 1788, and the whole family left the farm the next year.
www.jrank.org/literature/pages/13833/Mossgiel-Ayrshire.html#ixzz0fqNFMp7n