This paper explores the tension between communal tradition and individual expression in the poetry and songs of Robert Burns. Often celebrated as the "Heaven-taught ploughman," Burns is examined here as a conscious artist who utilized the matrix of folk tradition to construct a distinct "lyrical ego." By analyzing his revisions of Scottish airs and his original compositions, this study argues that Burns transformed the passive reception of oral tradition into an active tool for self-fashioning and social critique, bridging the gap between the communal voice of the 18th-century folk song and the subjective voice of Romantic poetry.
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Burns’s major contribution to Scottish culture was his work as an editor and contributor to The Scots Musical Museum . Here, Burns performed a delicate balancing act. He sought to preserve fading melodies, but he refused to let the lyrics remain static artifacts. This paper explores the tension between communal tradition
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