9256. Burns, Robert. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996

The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996.


NUMBER:	9256
QUOTATION:	Hear me, auld Hangie, for a wee, An’ let poor, damned bodies bee; I’m sure sma’ pleasure it can gie, Ev’n to a deil, To skelp an’ scaud poor dogs like me, An’ hear us squeel!
ATTRIBUTION:	Robert Burns (1759–1796), Scottish poet. Address to the Deil (l. 7–12). . . Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I–II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.).
BIOGRAPHY:	Columbia Encyclopedia.
WORKS:	Burns Collection.