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Family and Poetic Affinities of Bulmer, Burns, and Cleghorn

2025· article· en· W4416952832 on OpenAlex
Angus Cleghorn

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Bibliographic record

VenueBishop–Lowell Studies · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicScottish History and National Identity
Canadian institutionsSeneca Polytechnic
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPoetryBrotherBalladAncestorAdventureQueen (butterfly)Family treeBiography

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Abstract This article yokes family stories about Robert Burns as a literary, cultural, and amicable influence upon the Bishop and Cleghorn families. It delves into Burns’s Scotland as lived with the article author’s ancestor Robert Cleghorn; they shared verses, sung and dined together, and exchanged letters about poetry and farming in Edinburgh and Dumfries. The Cleghorn and Bishop families brought Burns’s poetic culture to Canada. Elizabeth Bishop’s grandfather, William “Pa” Bulmer, read Burns and the Bible in the Great Village family parlor during evenings, and Bishop inherited stories of Burns being read during the Maritime seafaring adventures of William Hutchinson, the brother of her grandmother “Gammie.” Bishop’s childhood absorption of Burns influenced her oft-expressed wanderlust, her use of ballad forms, and her unflinching inclusion of abjection in poetry. Bishop’s Bulmer family hailed from Yorkshire and sailed to Nova Scotia in the 1740s. Bulmer/Boomer migrations to Canada continued in the early 1800s, including the author’s Boomer ancestors, Michael and his daughter Mary Boomer, who married my great-great-grandfather Andrew Cleghorn. Boomer genealogy from the Bulmer and surrounding villages in Yorkshire extends back to the clan’s historical roots as Huguenots in France exiled by Louis XIV. These 500-year-old circuits reveal diasporic culture at work.

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metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.799
Threshold uncertainty score0.435

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.055
GPT teacher head0.279
Teacher spread0.224 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it