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Selected Poems and Songs
Andrew O'hagan
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Description for Selected Poems and Songs
Paperback. This volume offers Burns's work as it was first encountered by contemporary readers, presenting the texts in the contexts in which they were originally published. It includes the whole of Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786), a generous selection of songs with full scores, comprehensive notes, some important letters and a glossary. Editor(s): Irvine, Robert P. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 496 pages, 2 black and white illustrations; 2 maps. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 340.
'The Poetic Genius of my Country...bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my natal Soil, in my native tongue.' Many of the poems and songs of Robert Burns (1759-96) are familiar to readers the world over: lyrical, acerbic, comic, bawdy, democratic. They include 'To a Mouse', 'John Anderson my Jo', 'A red red Rose', 'Auld lang syne', 'Tam o 'Shanter' and many more, whose vernacular energy and simple beauty have ensured lasting popularity. This generous new selection offers Burns's work as it was first encountered by contemporary readers, presenting ... Read more
'The Poetic Genius of my Country...bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my natal Soil, in my native tongue.' Many of the poems and songs of Robert Burns (1759-96) are familiar to readers the world over: lyrical, acerbic, comic, bawdy, democratic. They include 'To a Mouse', 'John Anderson my Jo', 'A red red Rose', 'Auld lang syne', 'Tam o 'Shanter' and many more, whose vernacular energy and simple beauty have ensured lasting popularity. This generous new selection offers Burns's work as it was first encountered by contemporary readers, presenting ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199682324
SKU
V9780199682324
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About Andrew O'hagan
Robert P. Irvine has written on Jane Austen and is the editor of The Edinburgh Anthology of Scottish Literature, 2 vols. (Kennedy and Boyd, 2009), and R. L. Stevenson's Prince Otto for the New Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (forthcoming).
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