Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)

by Robert Burns (Author), Carol McGuirk (Editor)

• New

  Paperback
  1993

  $10.82

  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.

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $3.23

  Fourteen of the best-loved and best-known of Burns's poems are here available in a single pocket-sized volume with a Scots glossary and some of the poet's own notes. From Tam o' Shanter to My Love is Like a Red Red Rose to To a Haggis - here is the essential Burns.