Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) Robert Burns

Author: Burns, R

Brand: Penguin

Color: Black

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 368

Release Date: 01-05-1994

Part Number: 9780140423822

Details: Product Description
This selection gives equal weight to the two aspects of Robert Burns's reputation, as a lyricist and as a much-loved Scottish poet. Placing works in probable order of composition, it includes lyrics to his most well known songs, such as the nostalgic Auld Lang Syne, the romantic A Red, Red Rose, and the patriotic Scots What Hae. As a poet, Burns wrote with deceptive simplicity and imaginative sympathy, and demonstrated enormous range - from comic dramatic monologues such as Holy Willie's Prayer, which mocks hypocrisy, to narratives including the celebrated Tam O' Shanter, about the ghostly visions of a drunk.
Review
Address To A Haggis
Address To Beelzebub
Address To The Deil
Address To The Unco Guid, Or The Rigidly Righteous
Afton Water
The Auld Farmer's New Year Morning Salutation ... Auld Mare
Auld Lang Syne
The Author's Earnest Cry And Prayer
Ay Waukin, O
The Banks O' Doon
A Bard's Epitaph
The Bonnie Wee Thing
Charlie He's My Darling
The Cotter's Saturday Night
Death And Doctor Hornbook; A True Story
The Death And Dying Words Of Poor Mailie
A Dream
Duan Second
Elegy On The Death Of Robert Ruisseaux
Elegy On The Year 1788
Epistle To A Young Friend
Epistle To Davie, A Brother Poet
Epistle To Hugh Parker
Epistle To James Smith
Epistle To John Lapraik, An Old Scottish Bard
Epistle To The Rev. John M'math
Epistle To William Stewart
Epitaph On My Own Friend And My Father's Friend, William M.
Extemporaneous Effusion
Extempore To Gavin Hamilton. Stanzas On Naething
Farewell To The Highlands
A Fond Kiss
For A' That And A' That; Song
The Fornicator. A New Song
The Gallant Weaver
Green Grow The Rashes, O
Hey Ca' Thro'
Highland Harry
The Holy Fair
Holy Willie's Prayer
I Hae A Wife O' My Ain
I Love My Jean
I Murder Hate
It Was A' For Our Rightfu' King
Jamie, Come Try Me
John Anderson My Jo
John Barleycorn
Kirkcudbright Grace
Lady Mary Ann
Lassie Lie Near Me
Last May A Braw Wooer Came Down The Lang Glen
Lines Written On A Bank Note
Lines Written On Windows Of The Globe Inn, Dumfries
Logan Water
Louis What Reck I By Thee
Love And Liberty
Man Was Made To Mourn
Mary Morison
A Mountain Daisy
My Father Was A Farmer
My Love She's But A Lassie Yet
My Nanie, O
My Peggy's Face, My Peggy's Form
O For Ane And Twenty Tam
O Once I Lov'd
O'er He Water To Charlie
Ode To Spring
Oh, Wert Thou In The Cauld Blast
On Stirling; Seeing The Royal Palace In Ruin
On The Battle Of Sheriffmuir
A Poet's Welcome To His Love-begotten Daughter
Poor Mailie's Elegy
The Rantin Dog The Daddie O't
Rattlin,' Roarin' Willie
A Red, Red Rose
The Rigs O' Barley
Sae Flaxen Were Her Ringlets
Sandy And Jockie
Scotch Drink
Scots Wha Hae
Song Composed In August
Tam Glen
Tam O' Shanter
The Taylor Fell Thro' The Bed
There Was A Lad
Tibbie Dunbar
To A Gentleman Who Sent Him A Newspaper
To A Louse, On Seeing One On A Lady's Bonnet At Church
To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough
To Alexander Findlater
To Daunton Me
To Robert Graham Of Fintry, Esq.
To The Same
To William Simson, Ochiltree
The Twa Dogs
Verses Written Under Fergusson's Portrait
The Vision
Wantonness
When First I Came To Stewart Kyle
When Princes And Prelates
Whistle, And I'll Come To You My Lad
Kirkcudbright Grace
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About the Author
Robert Burns was born in 1759, the son of a struggling tenant farmer in Ayrshire. Lucky enough to be educated, Burns immersed himself in the literature of Milton and Sterne, discovering the possibilities of contemporary literature in Scots during his twenties. He died in 1796.Carol McGuirk is a Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University. Her publications include Robert Burns and the Sentimental Era and essays on eighteenth-century poetry.

EAN: 9780140423822

Package Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.0 x 0.9 inches

Languages: English, Scots