#William Walter Wordsworth

[frozenoverblackballoon]

Paintings by Shibamoto from the Trinity Blood Stories Untold book, that came out I believe in 2005. A year after Yoshida's passing. I translated these the best I could. Honestly, I don't think the last painting with Lilith is talking about Abel, I feel its Cain. Would make since. once upon a time Cain was a good man, who was loved by all and did his best to help the human race and protect his family and Lilith alike. Even if he held just as much resentment towards humanity as Abel. He chose to handle it a better way. I wouldn't be surprised if she was secretly in love with him. I don't ship it though. It fits with Yoshida's writing style. Many beautiful women in love with Abel, he's in love with a woman who secretly hates his guts and who is secretly in love with a man who can't love anymore. All of these are inspired off of events that might have happened if the series had kept going. Not moments of scenes that were to happen. Seth and Lilith's wings aren't canon. Since there not in the books. Just Shibamoto's ideas of what they might have wanted them to look like.

[trinity-blood-translations]

I totally forgot. Of course we know the birthday of Esther, since it was the key to identify her as the granddaughter of the queen. She was born on november 26, Year 645 (3050 AD)

Source: ROM V, Chapter 2 (Land of Refuge), Part VII, p. 220 [original japanese version] in manga: Volume 15, chapter 52 (Much Ado About Nothing)

Also by searching for manga picture I've just realized that all the online availible versions miss the last 8 pages of chapter 52 with very important content about the birth of Esther and the circumstances. I will do everythign to fix it.

and a dork keeps changing random (false) birthday informations iof the characters on the wikia pages. not fun.

Do you know if any of the characters have birthdays?

As I know the birthdays of the characters aren't stated anywhere in the official sources (maybe some exceptions, but I don't know of any), only the year of birth.I know, someone write birthdays in the wiki pages, but now i will go and delete them, because they are false informations.

[jesuisgourde]

A list of all the books mentioned in Peter Doherty's journals (and in some interviews/lyrics, too)

Because I just made this list in answer to someone's question on a facebook group, I thought I may as well post it here.

-The Picture of Dorian Gray/The Ballad Of Reading Gaol/Salome/The Happy Prince/The Duchess of Padua, all by Oscar Wilde -The Thief's Journal/Our Lady Of The Flowers/Miracle Of The Rose, all by Jean Genet -A Diamond Guitar by Truman Capote -Mixed Essays by Matthew Arnold -Venus In Furs by Leopold Sacher-Masoch -The Ministry Of Fear by Graham Greene -Brighton Rock by Graham Green -A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud -The Street Of Crocodiles (aka Cinnamon Shops) by Bruno Schulz -Opium: The Diary Of His Cure by Jean Cocteau -The Lost Weekend by Charles Jackson -Howl by Allen Ginsberg -Women In Love by DH Lawrence -The Tempest by William Shakespeare -Trilby by George du Maurier -The Vision Of Jean Genet by Richard Coe -"Literature And The Crisis" by Isaiah Berlin -Le Cid by Pierre Corneille -The Paris Peasant by Louis Aragon -Junky by William S Burroughs -Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes -Futz by Rochelle Owens -They Shoot Horses Don't They? by Horace McCoy -"An Inquiry On Love" by La revolution surrealiste magazine -Idea by Michael Drayton -"The Nymph's Reply to The Shepherd" by Sir Walter Raleigh -Hamlet by William Shakespeare -The Silver Shilling/The Old Church Bell/The Snail And The Rose Tree all by Hans Christian Andersen -120 Days Of Sodom by Marquis de Sade -Letters To A Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke -Poetics Of Space by Gaston Bachelard -In Favor Of The Sensitive Man and Other Essays by Anais Nin -La Batarde by Violette LeDuc -Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov -Intimate Journals by Charles Baudelaire -Juno And The Paycock by Sean O'Casey -England Is Mine by Michael Bracewell -"The Prelude" by William Wordsworth -Noise: The Political Economy of Music by Jacques Atalli -"Elm" by Sylvia Plath -"I am pleased with my sight..." by Rumi -She Stoops To Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith -Amphitryon by John Dryden -Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellman -The Song Of The South by James Rennell Rodd -In Her Praise by Robert Graves -"For That He Looked Not Upon Her" by George Gascoigne -"Order And Disorder" by Lucy Hutchinson -Man Crazy by Joyce Carol Oates -A Pictorial History Of Sex In The Movies by Jeremy Pascall and Clyde Jeavons -Anarchy State & Utopia by Robert Nozick -"Limbo" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge -Men In Love: Masculinity and Sexuality in the Eighteenth Century by George Haggerty

[arbitrary line break because tumble hates lists apparently]

-Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky -Innocent When You Dream: the Tom Waits Reader -"Identity Card" by Mahmoud Darwish -Ulysses by James Joyce -The Four Quartets poems by TS Eliot -Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare -A'Rebours/Against The Grain by Joris-Karl Huysmans -Prisoner Of Love by Jean Genet -Down And Out In Paris And London by George Orwell -The Man With The Golden Arm by Nelson Algren -Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates -"Epitaph To A Dog" by Lord Byron -Cocaine Nights by JG Ballard -"Not By Bread Alone" by James Terry White -Anecdotes Of The Late Samuel Johnson by Hester Thrale -"The Owl And The Pussycat" by Edward Lear -"Chevaux de bois" by Paul Verlaine -A Strong Song Tows Us: The Life of Basil Bunting by Richard Burton -Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes -The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri -The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling -The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling -Ask The Dust by John Frante -On The Trans-Siberian Railways by Blaise Cendrars -The 39 Steps by John Buchan -The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol -The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol -The Iliad by Homer -Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad -The Volunteer by Shane O'Doherty -Twenty Love Poems and A Song Of Despair by Pablo Neruda -"May Banners" by Arthur Rimbaud -Literary Outlaw: The life and times of William S Burroughs by Ted Morgan -The Penguin Dorothy Parker -Smoke by William Faulkner -Hero And Leander by Christopher Marlowe -My Lady Nicotine by JM Barrie -All I Ever Wrote by Ronnie Barker -The Libertine by Stephen Jeffreys -On Murder Considered As One Of The Fine Arts by Thomas de Quincey -The Void Ratio by Shane Levene and Karolina Urbaniak -The Remains Of The Day by Kazuo Ishiguro -Dead Fingers Talk by William S Burroughs -The England's Dreaming Tapes by Jon Savage -London Underworld by Henry Mayhew

[dabiconcordia]

“The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up. Burns chose autumn. Longfellow liked the month of September. Shelley flourished in the hot months. Some poets, like Wordsworth, have gone outdoors to work. Others, like Auden, keep to the curtained room. Schiller needed the smell of rotten apples about him to make a poem. Tennyson and Walter de la Mare had to smoke. Auden drinks lots of tea, Spender coffee; Hart Crane drank alcohol. Pope, Byron, and William Morris were creative late at night. And so it goes.” ― Helen Bevington

[lilyvalerieorchard]

From this day forward...

Mark Twain

Charles Dickens

Victor Hugo

William Shakespeare

Ernest Hemmingway

John Steinbeck

Herman Melville

Thomas Mallory

Ben Jonson

John Milton

Alfred Lord Tennison

Walter Scott

William Wordsworth

Edgar Allen Poe

H.R James

The Brothers Grimm

Charles Perrault

John Donne

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Friedrich Schiller

Christopher Marlow

Edmund Spencer

Miguel Cervantes

Homer

Ovid

Virgil

Anton Chekhov

Ian Fleming

Leo Tolstoy

J.M Barrie

Lewis Carrol

C.S Lewis

J.R.R Tolkien

Dante Alighieri

...ARE ALL OFFICALLY CANCELLED.

[scotianostra]

On November 21st 1835 James Hogg, the poet known as the Ettrick shepherd, died in Ettrick.

As his date of birth is unknown and only a gueestimate, and it being so close, I will forgo the December date and concentrate on todays post.

Like Burns and Scott, James Hogg was keenly interested in Song.  He published a book of music known as The Forest Minstrel.  Originally published in 1810, The Forest Minstrel is the complete collection of songs by Hogg, featuring his first compositions as a shepherd in Ettrick and those inspired by early contact with the literary culture of Edinburgh. Hogg also taught himself to play the fiddle, and rapidly began to make a name for himself as "Jamie the Poeter", a singer of traditional ballards and reciter of the rich folklore of the Scottish Borders, he could also draw, as seen in the pic which shows The River Esk in Roslin Glen, a body of water I know very well.

James Hogg was born on a farm near Ettrick Forest in Selkirk and baptized there onor around December 9th. The house that James Hogg was born in was at Ettrick Hall, a few miles from St Mary's Loch. Here a statue commemorates his birth. He lived here for the first seven years of his life. James Hogg had little education, and became a shepherd, living in poverty. His father was a shepherd and he too took on the title, hence his nickname, The Ettrick Shepherd. His employer, James Laidlaw of Blackhouse, seeing how hard he was working to improve himself, offered to help by making books available. Hogg used these to essentially teach himself to read and write. He had achieved this by the age of 14. In 1796 Robert Burns died, and Hogg, who had only just come to hear of him, was devastated by the loss. He struggled to produce poetry of his own, and Laidlaw introduced him to Sir Walter Scott, who asked him to help with a publication entitled The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. In 1801, Hogg visited Edinburgh for the first time.

His own collection, The Mountain Bard, was published in 1807 and became a best-seller, allowing him to buy a farm of his own. Having made his name, he started a literary magazine, The Spy, and his epic story-poem, The Queen's Wake (the setting being the return to Scotland of Queen Mary after her exile in France), was published in 1813 and was another big success. Yesterdays subject of a post, William Blackwood recruited him for the Edinburgh Magazine, and he was introduced to William Wordsworth and several other well-known literary figures. He was given a farm by the Duke of Buccleuch, and settled down there for the rest of his life.

Hogg had already made his reputation as a prose writer with a practical treatise on sheep's diseases; and in 1824 his novel, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, was another major success. He became better known than his hero, Burns, had ever been.

Hogg's poetry and essays were not as widely read as in his contemporary era. However "Justified Sinner" remains important and is now seen as one of the major Scottish novels of its time, and absolutely crucial in terms of exploring one of the key themes of Scottish culture and identity: You might be surprised to know that the Scottish novelist Irvine Welsh cited Hogg, especially "Justified Sinner" as a major influence on his writing.

Hogg published mainly poetry until he was in his late forties. A particularly notable poem from this period is The Queen's wake, a book-length narrative in which the poets of Scotland assemble at Holyrood Palace for a bardic contest to celebrate the return of Mary Queen of Scots from France. A notable series of novels followed. Hogg's alternative version of James Macpherson's Ossian poem, Fingal. Many of Hogg's best later poems were collected in A Queer book.

Hogg's writings explore the supernatural with great power and sophistication, as in The Justified sinner, which is regarded by many as the greatest of all Scottish novels. Equally powerful is The Three perils of Woman, which explores the terrible aftermath of Culloden. The Three perils of Man is Hogg's version of a Medieval romance. Overflowing with vivacity, this novel is full of devilry and witchcraft. Much of the action takes place at Aikwood in the Ettrick valley, where Gibbie Jordan witnesses a wedding between a demon and a witch.

Aikwood Tower was until recently the home a Hogg exhibition that was open to the public during the tourist season. The Hogg exhibition has since moved as Aikwood is no longer open to the public.

Many of you will know by now I prefer shorter poems, I will leve a link below where you can find more of his work, but for now here is one of his shortest poems.

O, love, love, love! Love is like a dizziness; It winna let a puir body Gang about his biziness!

[laddersofsweetmisery]

My former English professor is retiring and gave away a bunch of the books in her office. She's a gem. I giddily returned to campus just to sort through her collection. Super excited about the ones I brought home with me. I thought someone else might appreciate some of the books I found.

I've already began poring over the poetry collections, but what should I read first? Are there any that you guys have read that you highly recommend?

Books included in Photo 1:

● Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (Alta Edition includin Persuasion)

● Robert Burns by David Daiches

● Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

● Leigh Hunt's What is Poetry? by Albert S. Cook

● Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister by Aphra Behn

● Virginia Woolf: A Biography by Quentin Bell

● Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots, and Revolutionaries 1776-1871 by Adam Zamoyski

● Earnest Victorians by Robert A. Rosenbaum

● Lord Byron: Selected Letters and Journals by Lord Byron, Leslie A. Marchand (Editor)

Books Included in Photo 2:

● Orlando by Virginia Woolf

● Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

● The Portable Irish Reader, (The Viking portable library) by Diarmuid Russell

● The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

● Becoming a Heroine by Rachel M. Brownstein

● To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf

● East Lynne by Ellen Wood, writing as Mrs Henry Wood

● Poetry and Prose of Alexander Pope edited by Aubrey Williams

● In Memoriam; An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism (Norton Critical Editions) by Alfred Tennyson

● Daughters and Fathers by Lynda E. Boose, Betty S. Flowers

Books Included in Photo 3:

● Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

● A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne

● Goblin Market and Other Poems by Christina Rossetti (Dover Thrift Editions)

● Sound the Deep Waters: Women's Romantic Poetry in the Victorian Age includes works by Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, Alice Meynell, and Edith Nesbit

● The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler

● The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein by Thomas Hoobler and Dorothy Hoobler

● Wordsworth and the Poetry of Human Suffering by James H. Averill

● Victorian Ghost Stories: By Eminent Women Writers (Part of the The Virago Book Series) edited by Richard Dalby

● The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

● Victorian Poetry and Poetics by Walter E. Houghton G. Robert

[oblivious-melodies]

Based on the Jane Austen ask, which of the major characters (Artemisia, Ambrose, Felix, Hyder, Harry, Mariah, Amity, Jacob, etc.) are readers? And who would be their favourite authors and/or books?

Ooh lovely question! I had to have a proper think about this, and of course it's all hypothetical ahah. Artemisia and Ambrose are difficult because they'll be different people based on the choices you make in-game, but as mentioned, Arty totally fits the brief for an Austen reader of her period. Along those lines, I think she'd also be very interested by the novels of Frances Burney, and perhaps on her more adventurous days, something a little more out-there like Ann Radcliffe or Walter Scott (simply as their appeal was so wide - The Phantom of Castle Glenochrie was meant to parody this sort of literature!). Ambrose I can see very much enjoying Mackenzie's Man of Feeling, and sentimental/Romantic forerunners in the form of Laurence Sterne and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Keats wasn't particularly well-read in his own time, but I think Ambrose would be a fan :)

Speaking of poetry, Mariah is singled out as not being a novel reader. I think first-generation Romantics along the lines of Charlotte Turner Smith, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge would really appeal to her. I can see Felix, the firebrand that he is, having perhaps the most radical tastes of all - Byron and Shelley (again, the latter wasn't really a big hit in his time) for sure, but perhaps also more nakedly political writers such as John Thelwall and Thomas Paine. Hyder is far more establishment-leaning and would tend towards eighteenth-century Augustan works - Thomas Gray, Samuel Johnson, and perhaps Pope, but on his less vulgar days - I'm thinking Iliad rather than Dunciad. On the whole I think he'd be much more interested in some non-fiction such as Edward Gibbon or David Hume.

Harry strikes me as a very well-read individual - as mentioned, I think he wouldn't be opposed to Austen in the least, but certainly would get involved with metropolitan journalism and criticism. William Hazlitt, Charles Lamb, and The Spectator would also be very up his street. He also favours the abolition of slavery and so the likes of William Cowper and Thomas Clarkson might appeal to him. Amity, we know, is a big reader, and I think she would love almost any form of travel literature, especially of the more salacious sort. The Chickwell book she reads is based on Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's travels in the Ottoman Empire, and likewise other books regarding female travel and mobility (Germaine de Stael, Aphra Behn, or Eliza Haywood perhaps) would also entertain her. Jacob however is more practical than intellectual. Poetry with a rural/natural theme - perhaps Thompson's Seasons, or the works of labouring-class writers like Robbie Burns, John Clare, or Stephen Duck, might appeal to his sensibilities.

I almost wish you'd waited a little longer to send this, as in my opinion, some of the characters with the most interesting tastes are yet to come :)

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 4.7

Beer Birthdays

Charles Duff (1894)

Leo Van Munching Jr. (1926)

Alex Puchner (1961)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Jack Black; actor, singer (1969)

Francis Ford Coppola; film director (1939)

Billie Holiday; singer (1915)

Wayne Rogers; actor (1933)

William Wordsworth; English poet, writer (1770)

Famous Birthdays

Bill Bellamy; actor, comedian (1965)

Jerry Brown; politician (1938)

Irene Castle; dancer (1893)

Jackie Chan; actor, martial artist (1954)

Russell Crowe; actor (1964)

Tony Dorsett; Dallas Cowboys RB (1954)

Allan Dulles; diplomat (1893)

Daniel Ellsberg; "Pentagon Papers" (1931)

Percy Faith; bandleader (1908)

David Frost; television host (1939)

James Garner; actor (1928)

Freddie Hubbard; jazz trumpeter (1938)

Janis Ian; pop singer (1951)

Will Kellogg; cereal maker (1860)

David Low; English cartoonist (1891)

Jennifer Lynch; film director (1968)

John McGraw; New York Giants Mgr (1873)

John Oates; pop singer (1949)

Alan J. Pakula; film director (1928)

Mongo Santamaria; bandleader (1917)

Ravi Shankar; sitarist (1920)

Walter Winchell; journalist (1897)

Stan Winston; special effects artist (1946)

[skyminds]

English Romanticism (1798-1832)

English Romanticism began in 1798 with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s The Lyrical Ballads and ended in 1832 with Walter Scott’s death. William Blake and Robert Burns also belong to this literary genre, though they lived before the Romantic period. Romanticism took place during a period of wars and revolutions, of considerable shifts and changes. It was a time of profound political…

[klockolio]

What is the Purpose of Art?

To talk about art you need a theory about what art is for. Most people only have two (very different) theories of the point of art generally. First people think that art is an escape from your dreary life of paying bills and being stressed into a more fun world of adventure, and that it does mean anything any more than rollercoasters and Pepsi mean something; these people think looking for metaphors and ideas in art to be delusional, and stick with discussing the story-world as if it were a real place. Second, people think art is an expression of personal feeling and identity that maybe heals and soothes the artist and audience. There are many more ways of thinking about what art can do, and better ways to do those first two things. What follows are some important ways of looking at art. Harold Bloom, Sigmund Freud, and Walter Pater are my personal guiding lights. Use whatever works here depending on the art: you don’t have to be consistent! This is not a religion! These are tools! Use them if they help!

Art and Reality

Plato: Art is a bad copy of reality, which is itself a bad copy of timeless ideals such as True Justice! Art tells lies and distracts you from what matters — doing philosophy, studying timeless cosmic truth!

Sir Philip Sidney: Plato is wrong! Lies and Art are totally different things, because art is not trying to trick you! Art inspires and educates while entertaining, which makes it better than philosophy or history, which are not entertaining or inspiring!

Alexander Pope: Art is a good copy of reality and reality is made by God so art is good, and artists imitate and honor god!

Oscar Wilde: Art tells lies and this is good because reality sucks! Art is an escape, its own reality! Style matters most! (See the five key art terms section above for more on Craft, which is the word I use that includes what Wilde means by “style”)

Jean Baudrillard: Art (artificiality, including cloning, maps, and virtual reality) is such a good copy of reality it has maybe destroyed and replaced reality but we can’t be sure.

Art and Authors

William Wordsworth: An author is no longer an inspired prophet telling cosmic truths about history, nation building, and God’s creation of earth and his place for you in it. The author is a regular person, expressing powerful feelings

Cleanth Brooks: Wordsworth makes art about the author and Brooks hates that because it is distracting everybody who now only want to talk about biography! Ignore the author — just talk about how the words on the page work, what they do.

Virginia Woolf: Who gets to be an author anyway? Like who has the time and money and support? This is why so many creatives types are straight white guys — they are not just magically better, they are supported by society in a way others are not.

Harold Bloom: Art is one author trying to outdo another by twisting and revising and reimagining and correcting their earlier work in a new work. This reimagining of earlier work is what originality is. (My film class is based on this principle)

Michele Foucault: Are you sure you know what authors are and where they stop and start, and what counts as “official” and what does not and why?

Art and Audiences

Sigmund Freud: Stories matter because they reflect unconscious desires and power fantasies in the audience — the audience likes things but does not know why. (See the fourth of the five key terms, ideas, above)

Pierre Bourdieu: Taste in art is how audiences affiliate and disaffiliate with groups, it’s how they advertise themselves to each other and build relationships; people essentially brainwash themselves, or get brainwashed, into liking the art for their group.

Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer: Art is now big business and is how culture brainwashes the audience to support the rich and the status quo

Walter Pater: The audiences’s worship of art for art’s sake (craft) is the most intense way to live life, because it points things out in life that you would not notice otherwise. It helps you notice more. This is why I do what I do.

Other Big Ideas — I don’t really teach these ones

Should we back away from stories by dead straight rich white men? [I respect people that do, as I respect ethical vegetarians; but I think students need to know these authors so they can see why the world, including the art world, looks the way it does. Once you see how much of the world is not natural but built by these men’s (often fucked up) ideas you can see how to build it better.]

Marcel Proust: Art allows us intimacy with more people (authors or characters) than we could get without art? [yes]

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Should art expand and strengthen the human soul by taking it from simple to difficult pleasure? [yes]

Jacques Derrida: Signs (such as words) don’t connect to reality like we think they do — they connect to other signs (dictionary definitions of words take you not to reality but to more words). Because of this be skeptical of books about Truth or God. [fair]

Aristotle: Tragedy gives us catharsis, a purification or purgation of emotions such as pity or fear [sure!]. Art could be, like going to the dentist, healthy but unpleasant.

The most important thing about a work of art is cultural, social and historical context (Stephen Greenblatt), or its economic context (Karl Marx), or its connection to race or colonialism (Edward Said), or its thinking about gender (Judith Butler) or sexuality (Eve Sedgwick), or its connection to a universal world mythology (Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung). [these people often notice interesting things, but often prioritize ideas to the detriment of irony, metaphor and craft].

Camille Paglia and Frederich Nietzsche: The most important thing about art the way it shows (masculine) control vs (feminine) chaos? [I am not dealing with this]

Should art to teach us to be better people, like, ethically, by showing us how to behave [only for small children] or giving us sympathy for people that are different from us? [sometimes maybe, but I kinda doubt it: the Nazi’s were great art connoisseurs]

[ladyofhimring]

[wwwordsworth]

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/513411

[scotianostra]

On November 29th 1813 a campaign was launched in Dumfries to raise public subscriptions to fund a mausoleum for the poet Robert Burns.

Robert Burns was originally buried in St Michael's Churchyard, Dumfries, in a simple grave, marked only by a plain stone slab. In 1803 when Dorothy and William Wordsworth visited Dumfries they had difficulty in even finding the grave. Burns' admirers came to believe that this was an insufficient memorial to the poet.

A circular was published on 29 November 1813 calling for the public to subscribe to the cost of a mausoleum. 18 local worthies attended a meeting in the George Inn in Dumfries held on 16 December 1813, and the project was launched.

Amongst those who took a leading part in the fund raising campaign was Sir Walter Scott. Money flowed in from all over people as far afield as India and America donated money. By spring 1815 enough funding was in place for the work, based on a design by Thomas Hunt of London, to be put out to tender. The contract was won by a local stonemason, John Milligan, with a tender of £331.8s.6d. The first stone was laid on 5 June 1815, in a less crowded part of the churchyard than where Burns had initially been buried.

The construction of the mausoleum ran into a number of problems caused by Milligan's failure to comply with the specifications or take directions from the committee supervising the work. It was only in September 1817 that the mausoleum was complete and the monument installed within it. The actually monument within the mausoleum was the work of Peter Turnerelli, an Irish-Italian sculptor working in London. The statue on the wall shows the Muse Coila hovering above the figure of Robert Burns who is standing by his plough.

On the 19th of September 1815, Robert Burns’s body was exhumed from his original, modest grave, and reinterred in the Mausoleum which stands in the south-eastern corner of St Michaels kirkyard, in 1834 when Jean Armour (Robert Burns's Wife) died she was buried alongside him within the Mausoleum