Selected poems
Burns, Robert, 1759-17961993
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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
Main title:
Selected poems / Robert Burns ; edited by Carol McGuirk.
Author:
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796, authorMcGuirk, Carol, editor
Imprint:
London : Penguin, 1993.
Collation:
xxx, 335 pages : music ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Bibliography : pages xxix-xxx. -Includes index.
ISBN:
01404238269780140423822
Dewey class:
821.6821.BURN808.81821.67821.6FKB
Local class:
821.6821821.914821BUR821 BUR
Language:
English
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Index terms:
English poetryScottish literature
BRN:
237594