None

Heaven-taught Fergusson, wrote Robert Burns in stylish admiration. This tribute was only one of many bonds between Scotland's national poet and the poetic master whom he most loved, but never met. The Edinburgh man of letters Henry Mackenzie had termed Burns a heaven-taught ploughman. The label stuck. In contrast the late Robert Fergusson had been no farm boy and had spent almost half his short life in formal education. Yet in calling him heaven-taught, Burns pays tribute to a fellow poet's genius. He wishes to link himself to a writer whose example both terrified and inspired him.