BURNS ROBERT

(P/B) BURNS: SELECTED POEMS
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 includi...
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(P/B) A NIGHT OUT WITH ROBERT BURNS
The Scottish poet Robert Burns has been idolised and eulogised. He has been sainted, painted, tarted-up and toasted. He is famous as the author of 'Auld Lang Syne', and he has long been the patron saint of the heartsore and the hungover. But what about the poems? Beneath the cult of Burns Nights and patriotic yawps, there is the work itself, among the purest and most truthful created in any age.This is a Burns collection like no other, introduced, arranged and contextualised by the award-winning novelist and essayist Andrew O'Hagan. Above ...
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(P/B) COLLECTED POEMS OF ROBERT BURNS
Robert Burns, the most celebrated of all Scottish poets, is remembered with great devotion - his birthday on 25th January provokes fervour and festivity among Scots and many others the world over. Born in 1759 into miserable rustic poverty, by the age of eighteen Burns had acquired a good knowledge of both classical and English literature. In June 1786 his first collection of verse, Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, which included To a Mouse and The Cotter's Saturday Night, was greeted with huge acclaim by all classes of society. His ...
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(P/B) KINETIC-HOUSE-TREE-PERSON DRAWINGS (K-H-T-P)

(P/B) ACTION STYLES AND SYMBOLS IN KINETIC DRAWINGS

BURNS: SELECTED POEMS (POPULAR CLASSICS) (0140622004)

(P/B) BURNS: SELECTED POEMS

(H/B) THE COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED POEMS, SONGS AND BALLADS OF ROBERT BURNS