Author: Robert BurnsPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Works of Robert Burns; with an Account of His Life, and a Criticism of His Writings, &c
Robert 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.
Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
Author: Robert BurnsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Bard
Author: Robert CrawfordPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 144646640X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
No writer is more charismatic than Robert Burns and no biographer has captured his energy, brilliance and radicalism as well as Robert Crawford does in The Bard. To his international admirers Burns 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 variety of untapped sources - from rediscovered poetry by Burns to manuscript journals, correspondence, interviews and oratory by his contemporaries - this new biography presents the remarkable life, loves and struggles of the great poet. 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 élan 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, intelligent biography startlingly demonstrates why the life and work of Scotland's greatest poet still compels the attention of the world a quarter of a millennium after his birth.
A Night Out with Robert Burns
Author: Robert BurnsPublisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 184767450X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The Scottish poet Robert Burns has been idolised and eulogised. He has been sainted, painted, tarted-up and toasted. He is famous as the author of 'Auld Lang Syne', and he has long been the patron saint of the heartsore and the hungover. But what about the poems? Beneath the cult of Burns Nights and patriotic yawps, there is the work itself, among the purest and most truthful created in any age. This is a Burns collection like no other, introduced, arranged and contextualised by the award-winning novelist and essayist Andrew O'Hagan. Above all, it is an accessible edition made for the pleasure of reading that brings Burns' timeless work to full, riotous, colourful life.
Tam O'Shanter
Author: Robert BurnsThe Works of Robert Burns
Author: Robert BurnsBurns
Author: James Alexander MackayPublisher: Stenlake Publishing
ISBN: 9780907526858
Category : Poets, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 749
Book Description
Originally published in 1992 by Mainstream Publishing Company (Edinburgh) Ltd.
Collected Poems of Robert Burns
Author: Robert BurnsPublisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853264153
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Born in 1759 into miserable rustic poverty, by the age of 18 Burns had acquired a good knowledge of both classical and English literature. This collection includes some of his most famous works such as the ballad "Auld Lang Syne", and "Tam o'Shanter".
Life of Robert Burns
Author: Thomas CarlylePublisher: New York : Sheldon
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description