A Red, Red Rose may have been inspired by the concept of deep time put forward a few years earlier by geologist James Hutton in his "Theory of the Earth" in 1789 . Hutton and Burns were contemporaries, and would have mixed in similar circles in Edinburgh. A Red, Red Rose "A Red, Red Rose" is a 1794 song in Scots by Robert Burns based on traditional sources. The song is also referred to by the title "Oh, My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose", "My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose" or "Red, Red Rose" and is often published as a
Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain with a plagiarized thesis on the apocryphal Shakespeare play, "A Yorkshire Tragedy", and the intermittently requited love of his “dark lady,” a Roma named Milena. Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain (also published as Red-Rose Chain) is the first novel by Canadian author Jeffrey Moore it won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in 2000, and has been translated into a dozen different languages. The novel chronicles the peregrinations of its love-obsessed picaresque hero, Jeremy Davenant, as he moves from York to Toronto to Montreal’s “Plateau district” and then back to York in pursuit