Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The Eighteenth Century
Author: The peerage of Scotland
Author: Sir Robert DouglasThe Clans, Septs & Regiments of the Scottish Highlands
Author: Frank AdamPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806304480
Category : Clans
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Given by Eugene Edge III.
History of the Burgh of Dumfries
Author: William M'DowallPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781017198928
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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Memorials of the Montgomeries, Earls of Eglinton
Author: Sir William FraserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eglinton, Earls of
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
The Book of Mackay
Author: Angus MacKayPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 587912293X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
Poems and Songs
Author: Robert BurnsBorder Memories
Author: Walter Riddell CarrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nobility
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Analecta: Or, Materials For a History of Remarkable Providences; Mostly Relating to Scotch Ministers and Christians
Author: Robert WodrowPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385129664
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.
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.