Author: Robert BurnsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The works of Robert Burns; with an account of his life, and a criticism on his writings
Author: Robert BurnsRobert Burns
Author: Ian McIntyrePublisher:
ISBN: 9781566492058
Category : Poets, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ian McIntyre's biography gives a careful analysis of Burn's songs and poetry and strips away the legend to explore what lies beneath. The figure that emerges is sharper, less idealized, perhaps more truly great, than in any previous biography.
The Bard
Author: Robert CrawfordPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691141718
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
No writer is more charismatic than Robert Burns. Wonderfully readable, The Bard catches Burns's energy, brilliance, and radicalism as never before. To his international admirers he was a genius, a hero, a warm-hearted friend; yet to the mother of one of his lovers he was a wastrel, to a fellow poet he was "sprung . . . from raking of dung," and to his political enemies a "traitor." Drawing on a surprising number of untapped sources--from rediscovered poetry by Burns to manuscript journals, correspondence, and oratory by his contemporaries--this new biography presents the remarkable life, loves, and struggles of the great poet. Inspired by the American and French Revolutions and molded by the Scottish Enlightenment, Burns was in several senses the first of the major Romantics. With a poet's insight and a shrewd sense of human drama, Robert Crawford outlines how Burns combined a childhood steeped in the peasant song-culture of rural Scotland with a consummate linguistic artistry to become not only the world's most popular love poet but also the controversial master poet of modern democracy. Written with accessible elan and nuanced attention to Burns's poems and letters, The Bard is the story of an extraordinary man fighting to maintain a sly sense of integrity in the face of overwhelming pressures. This incisive biography startlingly demonstrates why the life and work of Scotland's greatest poet still compel the attention of the world a quarter of a millennium after his birth.
Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
Author: Robert BurnsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Works of Robert Burns; with His Life
Author: Robert BurnsPublisher:
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Category : Ballads, Scots
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Tam O'Shanter
Author: Robert BurnsPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The Letters of Robert Burns
Author: Robert BurnsPublisher:
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Category : Poets, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The Oxford Edition of the Works of Robert Burns
Author: Robert BurnsPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199603170
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Volume 1. Commonplace books, tour journals, and miscellaneous prose / edited by Nigel Leask.
Life of Robert Burns
Author: Thomas CarlyleRobert Burns in Edinburgh
Author: Jerry BranniganPublisher: Waverley Books Limited
ISBN: 9781849341714
Category : Edinburgh (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Today Robert Burns is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and people all over the world annually celebrate Burns Night on 25 January. Famous now for Auld Lang Syne, Scots Wha Hae, and A Man's A Man for A' That, Rabbie inspires Scots to be proud of Scotland. When he arrived in Edinburgh in November 1786 Burns was unknown, but within days the 'Ploughman Poet' was the talk of the capital, mixing in a circle of wealthy and important new friends. Edinburgh was changing quickly and it was the time of the Scottish Enlightenment, a period of great intellectual and scientific achievement. Burns' experiences during his stay in Edinburgh, including love affairs and fathering illegitimate children, were to influence much of his work to come. His friendship with Agnes 'Nancy' McLehose led to the poem, Ae Fond Kiss, among others. To capture the events of these vital months, three Burns enthusiasts from Glasgow - Jerry Brannigan, John McShane and David Alexander - have newly researched this period in Burns' life for this book. Gain a sense of this fascinating man, city and time by dipping into this book as you stroll through the capital, or by reading it at your leisure. Book jacket.