Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns by Alec Ross

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(02-03-2024 05:50 PM)AussieMick Wrote:  Would be interesting to know when Lincoln first read Burns.

I thought it was New Salem, but I came across this -

In LINCOLN'S BOYHOOD: A Chronicle of His Indiana Years by Francis Marion Van Natter it says:

"As Lincoln's hunger for books mounted it was accompanied by increasing interest in Robert Burns' poems. Abe thought highly of the Scottish plowman's homey philosophy. Observed Isaac Arnold: "Burns he could quote from end to end."