This article analyses paratextual and self‐editing practices in the work of three eighteenth‐century Scots vernacular poets: Allan Ramsay, Robert Fergusson and Robert Burns. Taking the theories of paratext articulated by Gerard Genette and J. Hillis Miller as its starting‐point, the article considers the varying ways in which these three poets fashioned their own literary personae and, simultaneously, their audience, through prefaces, footnotes and glossing practice. It also explores the relationship between the three poets, analysing the ways in which Burns learned from both Ramsay and Fergusson, and how each navigated his place as poet in the literary market‐place.

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十八世纪苏格兰白话诗人的自我策划，自我编辑和观众建构

本文分析了18世纪苏格兰三位白话诗人艾伦·拉姆齐（Allan Ramsay），罗伯特·弗格森（Robert Fergusson）和罗伯特·伯恩斯（Robert Burns）的作品中的超文本和自我编辑实践。本文以杰拉德·吉内特（Gerard Genette）和J.希利斯·米勒（J. Hillis Miller）阐述的超文本理论为出发点，通过序言，脚注和上光练习，考虑了这三位诗人塑造自己的文学人物以及他们的听众的不同方式。 。它还探讨了三位诗人之间的关系，分析了伯恩斯从拉姆齐和弗格森那里学到的方式，以及每位诗人如何在文学市场中定位自己的诗人地位。