Author: Robert BurnsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The Entire Works of Robert Burns, with an Account of His Life, and a Criticism of His Writings. To which are Prefixed Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry
Author: Robert BurnsThe works of Robert Burns; with an account of his life, and a criticism on his writings
Author: Robert BurnsThe Entire Works of Robert Burns; with an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings. To which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry
Author: Robert BurnsThe Works of Robert Burns
Author: Robert BurnsPublisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Complete Works of Robert Burns, with an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings ... by James Currie, M.D. With an Enlarged and Corrected Glossary. With a Portrait
Author: Robert BurnsRobert Burns and the United States of America
Author: Arun SoodPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319944452
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
This book provides a critical study of the relationship between Robert Burns and the United States of America, c.1786-1866. Though Burns is commonly referred to as Scotland’s “National Poet”, his works were frequently reprinted in New York and Philadelphia; his verse mimicked by an emerging canon of American poets; and his songs appropriated by both abolitionists and Confederate soldiers during the Civil War era. Adopting a transnational, Atlantic Studies perspective that shifts emphasis from Burns as national poet to transnational icon, this book charts the reception, dissemination and cultural memory of Burns and his works in the United States up to 1866.
Titlepages and imprints of the books in the private library of J. M'Kie, Kilmarnock
Author: James MACKIE (of Kilmarnock.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
A Catalogue of Books in English Later Than 1700 Forming a Portion of the Library of Robert Hoe
Author: Robert HoePublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
A Catalogue of Books in English Later Than 1700
Author: Robert HoePublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
Robert Burns and Pastoral
Author: Nigel LeaskPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191591459
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Robert Burns and Pastoral is a full-scale reassessment of the writings of Robert Burns (1759-1796), arguably the most original poet writing in the British Isles between Pope and Blake, and the creator of the first modern vernacular style in British poetry. Although still celebrated as Scotland's national poet, Burns has long been marginalised in English literary studies worldwide, due to a mistaken view that his poetry is linguistically incomprehensible and of interest to Scottish readers only. Nigel Leask challenges this view by interpreting Burns's poetry as an innovative and critical engagement with the experience of rural modernity, namely to the revolutionary transformation of Scottish agriculture and society in the decades between 1760 and 1800, thereby resituating it within the mainstream of the Scottish and European enlightenments. Detailed study of the literary, social, and historical contexts of Burns's poetry explodes the myth of the 'Heaven-taught ploughman', revealing his poetic artfulness and critical acumen as a social observer, as well as his significance as a Romantic precursor. Leask discusses Burns's radical decision to write 'Scots pastoral' (rather than English georgic) poetry in the tradition of Allan Ramsay and Robert Fergusson, focusing on themes of Scottish and British identity, agricultural improvement, poetic self-fashioning, language, politics, religion, patronage, poverty, antiquarianism, and the animal world. The book offers fresh interpretations of all Burns's major poems and some of the songs, the first to do so since Thomas Crawford's landmark study of 1960. It concludes with a new assessment of his importance for British Romanticism and to a 'Four Nations' understanding of Scottish literature and culture.