Author: Robert BurnsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Burns Centenary, 21st July 1896: Great Demonstration at Dumfries
Author: Robert BurnsBurns Centenary 21st July 1896
Author: The Burns Supper
Author: Clark McGinnPublisher: Luath Press Ltd
ISBN: 1912387565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
When did Burns Suppers start? Why is it celebrated all over the world? Who can join in the fun? Spanning the history of the phenomenon, from the year of its creation in 1801 to the present day, this book offers you everything you need to know about the Burns Supper, and the poet for whom it is held every year. From the origins of the custom to its modern day interpretations, from the rituals and traditions to the fun and fellowship, this first full-length study of the unique annual celebration of Scotland's national poet answers every question you can think of, along with every one you can't.
Scottish Ethnicity and the Making of New Zealand Society, 1850-1930
Author: Tanja BueltmannPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748688773
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This book makes an original contribution to the growing body of knowledge on the Scots abroad, presenting a coherent and comprehensive account of the Scottish immigrant experience in New Zealand.
The G. Ross Roy Collection of Robert Burns
Author: Clayton Carlyle TarrPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570038297
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
"The G. Ross Roy Collection of Robert Burns includes fourteen color and fifty-eight black-and-white illustrations as well as an introduction by G. Ross Roy on the history of the collection. In text and images, the catalogue documents a monumental research collection that serves as an open invitation for further investigations into the life, works, and legacy of Scotland's bard."--BOOK JACKET.
Scottish Notes and Queries
Author: John BullochPublisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Robert Burns in Global Culture
Author: Murray PittockPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 1611480310
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Robert Burns in Global Culture is a collection which breaks new ground in treating Burns' poetry and influence in an international context. Widely recognized as poet of global significance in the nineteenth century, Burns' reputation has suffered from the critical turns in Romanticism since 1945 and is only now beginning to be seen in its proper context. Following on from the celebrations across the world to mark Burns' 250th anniversary in 2009, this collection asks questions concerning the nature of Burns' global influence in the United States, Europe and the Commonwealth, examines the extraordinary ways in which his writing combines a distinctively progressive agenda with deceptively traditional styles, and emplaces his reputation at the heart of questions of American exceptionalism, European democracy, British imperial identities, Italian politics, French literary history, questions of desire and sexuality, the Burns Supper and the extraordinary cult of Burns statues. 'Robert Burns in Global Culture' combines literary criticism, history, cultural theory and comparative literature to create a set of powerful, new and unique directions in the study of this major Romantic poet.
Annual Burns Chronicle and Club Directory
Author: Poetical Remains
Author: Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature Samantha MatthewsPublisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 019925463X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
What happens to poets' genius when they die? The peculiar affinity which was felt to exist between their physical and literary 'remains' - their bodies and books - is the subject of this original cultural study, which concentrates on poets and poetry from the Romantic to late Victorian period. Poetical Remains deals with issues such as the place of burial, the kind of monument deemed appropriate, the poet's 'last words' and last poems, the creation of memorial volumes, and thecommercial boost given to a poet's reputation by 'celebrity death', focussing in each case on the powerful, complex, often unstated but ever-present connections between the poet's body and their poetic 'corpus'. As well as the works of the poets themselves, Matthews draws on contemporary biography andmemoirs, family correspondence, newspaper reports, and tribute verse among other texts, and places the literature of poetic death in its social, material, and affective context: the conflict between the idealized 'country churchyard' and the secular urban cemetery, the ideal of private, familial burial as against the pressure for public ceremony, the recuperation of death-in-exile as an extension of national pride, transactions between spiritual and material, poetic and pragmatic, in asecularizing age.Some of the most poignant and darkly comic moments in nineteenth-century literary history arose around the deathbeds of poets and the events which followed their deaths. What happened to Shelley's heart, and to Thomas Hood's monument; the different fates which dictated that the first Poet Laureate appointed by Queen Victoria, Wordsworth, was buried in his family plot in Grasmere, while her second, Tennyson, was wrested from his family's grasp and interred in Westminster Abbey - these are someof the stories which Matthews tells, and which are bound up in a sustained and powerful argument about the way in which our culture deals with artists and their work on the boundary between life and death.
A History of Dumfries and Galloway
Author: Sir Herbert MaxwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dumfries and Galloway (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description