Burns: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (720 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0307266168 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 255 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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D. Phillips said Nice travel book. This is a hard back book and small enough to go just about anywhere. This does not seem to be a collection of all his works but there is a lot there and certainly all the works I was familiar with. The poems are printed in the center of the page so they to not look cluttered with the possibility of copious notes if you would like. There is a small forward in the front of the book about Robert burns and a . The other Bard Robert Burns may not be well known outside of Scotland, but he certainly deserves to be. Sadly, Burns too often gets shoved aside to make room for the English Romantic heavywieghts like Bryon, Blake, Shelley, Keats and Wordsworth, and if he does get mentioned in an anthology or classroom, it's usually as some curious footnote about the "renewed appreciation for the common man" that many Romantics extolled. List of poems included This is a complete list of the poetry included in the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets edition of Burns. I use a database called Readerware to keep track of my library and like to include the contents of poetry or short story collections so I can search the database if I'm looking for something such as Auld Lang Syne, I'll be able to find it. Since I went to the trouble of typing it all in I thought it mig
. He is author of Robert Burnsand co-editor of English Romanticism and the Celtic World. Robert Burns was born on January 25, 1759, in South Ayrshire, Scotland, and died in 1796.Gerard Carruthers is Senior Lecturer in Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow
The most essential of the immortal poems and songs of Scotland's beloved national bard are collected in this volume. With the publication of his first book of poems in 1786, Robert Burns—the twenty-seven-year-old son of a farmer—became a national celebrity, hailed as the "Ploughman Poet." When he died ten years later, ten thousand people came to pay their respects at his funeral, and in the two centuries since then he has inspired a cultlike following among Scots and poetry lovers around the world.A pioneer of the Romantic movement, Burns wrote in a light Scots dialect with brio, emotional directness, and wit, drawing on classical and English literary traditions as well as Scottish folklore—and leaving a timeless legacy. All o
. About the AuthorRobert Burns was born on January 25, 1759, in South Ayrshire, Scotland, and died in 1796.Gerard Carruthers is Senior Lecturer in Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is author of Robert Burnsand co-editor of English Romanticism and the Celtic World