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Selected Poems (Pocket Classics)

Selected Poems (Pocket Classics)

by RobertBurns (Author)

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    Paperback 2001

    $3.63
Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 144
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Published: 30 Apr 2001
ISBN 10: 1841951552
ISBN 13: 9781841951553

Author Bio
Robert Burns (1759-1796) Along with Walter Scott, Robert Burns is probably the best known Scottish writer in the world. His life story is often represented as one of sexual and alcoholic excess. Perhaps less well known is the political turmoil of the time, and the physical hardships which he endured, which at one point led him to contemplate emigrating to Jamaica. It was the success of his published poetry that helped change his mind, and he went on to be lionised by Edinburgh society and the literary establishment, as much a misunderstood and sentimentalised heaven-taught ploughman as the Ettrick Shepherd. Like James Hogg, Burns wrote scathing satirical poetry such as Holy Willie's Prayer in which he scorned religious bigots and hypocrits.