An article on the narrator of Tam o Shanter

Weston, John C. "The Narrator of Tam O' Shanter." SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 8.3 (1968): 537-50.  

A short article on Tam o Shanter

Thomas, W. K. "Burns 'Tam O'Shanter,' 57-58." Explicator 28 (1969): Item 33.  

An Article on Tam o Shanter in a companion to 18th c poetry

Pittock, Murray. "Robert Burns, 'Tam o' Shanter'." A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry. Ed. Christine Gerrard.Blackwell, 2006. 329-337. Print. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture~~Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture~~44 .  

Burns Narrative Irony

Morton, Richard. "Narrative Irony in Robert Burns's 'Tam o'Shanter'." Modern Language Quarterly 22 (1961): 12-20.  

Burns Parody

MacLaine, Allan H. "Burns's use of Parody in 'Tam O'Shanter'." Criticism 1 (1959): 308-16.  

an article on the art of storytelling

Haan, Max J. M. de. "But to our Tale: Some Thoughts on the Art of Story-Telling of Robert Burns." Amsterdamer Beiträge zur Älteren Germanistik 48 (1997): 161-8.  

Robert Burns and Pastoral Poetry

A book length study on Robert Burns in relation to pastoral tradition  

A Companion to the Eighteent Century Poetry

A collection of essays on the eighteenth century including a chapter of Tam o' Shanter. Pittock, Murray. "Robert Burns, 'Tam o' Shanter'." A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry. Ed. Christine Gerrard.Blackwell, 2006. 329-337. Print. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture~~Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture~~44 .  

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