Joyce’s Burns night : the poetry of Robert Burns in Finnegans wake

• Main Author: Barlow, Richard Alan
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/103531; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25982
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This essay studies Joyce’s use of the poetry of Robert Burns in Finnegans Wake. The main works covered in this chapter are Burns’ poems ‘The Cottar’s Saturday Night’ which is used by Joyce in the ‘Fable of the Ondt and the Gracehoper’; ‘John Anderson, my Jo’, which is an example Joyce using Scottish...