The Blithedale Romance on Tam o' Shanter: “a horned and long-tailed gentleman (in whom I recognized the fiendish musician erst seen by Tam O'Shanter) tuned his fiddle”
The Innocents Abroad on Tam o' Shanter: “trembling Tam O'Shanter saw the devil and the witches at their orgies that stormy night in “Alloway's auld haunted kirk.””
The Song of the Lark on The Jolly Beggars: “Hornbook" and "The Jolly Beggars," Burns's "Reply to his Tailor," he often read aloud to himself in his office, late at night, after a glass of hot toddy.”
The Anthropocene Reviewed on Auld Lang Syne: “We owe the current song to the great Scottish poet Robert Burns... On the back of the letter, Burns wrote a draft of the poem. (An entire essay covers the poem's history and text.)”
The Catcher in the Rye on Comin' Thro' the Rye: “You know that song 'If a body catch a body comin' through the rye'?..."It's 'If a body meet a body coming through the rye'!" old Phoebe said. "It's a poem. By Robert Burns."”
Team of Rivals on Highland Mary: “Indeed, four years after Lincoln’s death, Mary journeyed to the poet’s birthplace in Scotland, where, recalling one of her favorite poems about a lost love, she “sighed over poor ‘Highland Mary’s’ grave.””