Burns: Poems in Scots & English (Everyman's Library (Paper))

by RobertBurns (Author)

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  1996

  $3.28

  One of seven children born to a cotter in Ayrshire,Burns(1759-96)has become the virtual personification of all that's best in Scottish writing.Hisundiminished popularity is reflected in the celebrations held all over the world on 'Burns Night',25 January,his birthday;and his lyric 'Auld Lang Syne' has become synonymous with New Year festivities.Equally comfortable whether in his antive Scots or in English,Burns enjoyed immediate success with his volume POEMS,CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH(1786),but had suffered considerable financial and domestic hardship prior to its publication.He had a complicated love life,and even when married got involved with a string of women,some of whom are mentioned in his verse.

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  Paperback
  1993

  $6.64

  This book is part of the Everyman series which has been re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type and includes a themed introduction, a chronology of the life and times of the poet, annotations, a glossary of Scots words and selected criticism. This collection of Burns's poetry contains a variety of themes: the rollicking satire of hypocrisy; the pictures of life among the rural poor; the swift sympathy for fellow creatures. This book adds poems that were not in the first collection, including Holy Willie's Prayer (omitted for fear of libel) and the later Tom o'Shanter .