Download or read book A Night Out with Robert Burns written by Robert Burns and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2009-01-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 all, it is an accessible edition made for the pleasure of reading that brings Burns' timeless work to full, riotous, colourful life.
Download or read book A Night Out with Robert Burns written by Robert Burns and published by Douglas Gibson Books. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: January 25, 2009, marks the 250th anniversary of Burns’s birth. It will be a huge event around the world, not least across Canada. And we have the book! Robert Burns (1759-1796) is part of your life. If you’ve ever given or received a romantic red rose, or talked about a "do or die" situation, or if you’ve sung "Auld Lang Syne," you’re included. Others celebrate this ploughman poet with an eye for "the lasses" more directly. Every year, literally hundreds of thousands of Canadians, from coast to coast, go to Burns Suppers in January to celebrate his life. This year —2009 — will be the biggest ever, since it’s a 250th celebration of his birth. CBC TV is joining with the BBC to produce three one-hour programmes on his life, all written and hosted by Andrew O’Hagan, who is now the authority on Burns. This is because this book, published by Canongate in 2008, has already become a classic, bringing Burns to ordinary readers. Because Burns was on the right side of history, against privilege and rank and for everyone getting a fair chance, he is beloved around the world — in Andrew O’Hagan’s words, he is "the world’s greatest and most loveable poet."
Download or read book The Cotter s Saturday Night written by Robert Burns and published by Chicago : J. C. Winston. This book was released on 1872 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Robert Burns with an Account of His Life and a Criticism of His Writings c written by Robert Burns and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Night Out with Robert Burns a the Greatest Poems written by Robert Burns and published by . This book was released on 2009-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 since become the patron saint of the heart-sore and the hung-over. 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: a reader s edition, made for the pleasure of reading. Novelist and Scottish essayist Andrew O Hagan comes into company with the poet who has mattered most to him in his writing life. He selects the poems for the reader, and converses with the work, offering fragments and distilled commentary of his own. The effect is explosive, giving us Robert Burns at his very best a political Burns, a poet who can name hypocrisy and intolerance, and point directly to the human heart.
Download or read book The Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns written by Robert Burns and published by Waverley Books Limited. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Robert Burns is more than Scotland's national poet. With Shakespeare, Burns is an icon for the UK and Scotland he is a national symbol. This volume of poems and songs is a best selling, beautiful edition of his work."--Publisher description.
Download or read book Robert Burns in Your Pocket written by Robert Burns and published by Waverley Books Limited. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a clear and accessible biography of Burns and his work, fifty-two of Burns poems and songs, a comprehensive glossary of Scots words, an index of first lines and line drawings of scenes from his life, this compact book combines quality, style and value.
Download or read book Poems and Songs of Robert Burns written by Robert Burns and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 1205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems and Songs of Robert Burns Robert Burns - Robert Burns (1759 – 1796) called himself "an Aeolian harp strung to every wind of heaven." His first volume of poems, entitled Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, was published in 1786. An immediate success, it established Burns's poetic reputation, which has grown over two centuries to the point where he is not only the Scottish national poet but the object of a cult unique in British poetry. The present volume contains 43 of his finest poems and songs, reprinted unabridged from an authoritative tenth-century edition. Included are "The Twa Dogs," a deft satire of the Scottish upper classes; "To a Mouse," one of the poet's best known, most charming works; "Address to the Unco Guid," an attack on Puritan hypocrisy; "Holy Willie's Prayer," one of the great verse-satires of all times; as well as such favorites as "The Cotter's Saturday Night," "To a Mountain Daisy," "The Holy Fair," "Address to the Deil," "The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie," and many more. It is not necessary here to attempt to disentangle or explain away the numerous amours in which he was engaged through the greater part of his life. It is evident that Burns was a man of extremely passionate nature and fond of conviviality; and the misfortunes of his lot combined with his natural tendencies to drive him to frequent excesses of self-indulgence. He was often remorseful, and he strove painfully, if intermittently, after better things. But the story of his life must be admitted to be in its externals a painful and somewhat sordid chronicle. That it contained, however, many moments of joy and exaltation is proved by the poems here printed. Burns' poetry falls into two main groups: English and Scottish. His English poems are, for the most part, inferior specimens of conventional eighteenth-century verse. But in Scottish poetry he achieved triumphs of a quite extraordinary kind. Since the time of the Reformation and the union of the crowns of England and Scotland, the Scots dialect had largely fallen into disuse as a medium for dignified writing. Shortly before Burns' time, however, Allan Ramsay and Robert Fergusson had been the leading figures in a revival of the vernacular, and Burns received from them a national tradition which he succeeded in carrying to its highest pitch, becoming thereby, to an almost unique degree, the poet of his people. He first showed complete mastery of verse in the field of satire. In "The Twa Herds," "Holy Willie's Prayer," "Address to the Unco Guid," "The Holy Fair," and others, he manifested sympathy with the protest of the so-called "New Light" party, which had sprung up in opposition to the extreme Calvinism and intolerance of the dominant "Auld Lichts." The fact that Burns had personally suffered from the discipline of the Kirk probably added fire to his attacks, but the satires show more than personal animus. The force of the invective, the keenness of the wit, and the fervor of the imagination which they displayed, rendered them an important force in the theological liberation of Scotland. The Kilmarnock volume contained, besides satire, a number of poems like "The Twa Dogs" and "The Cotter's Saturday Night," which are vividly descriptive of the Scots peasant life with which he was most familiar; and a group like "Puir Mailie" and "To a Mouse," which, in the tenderness of their treatment of animals, revealed one of the most attractive sides of Burns' personality. Many of his poems were never printed during his lifetime, the most remarkable of these being "The Jolly Beggars," a piece in which, by the intensity of his imaginative sympathy and the brilliance of his technique, he renders a picture of the lowest dregs of society in such a way as to raise it into the realm of great poetry
Download or read book Robert Burns written by Patrick Scott Hogg and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns (1759-96), Patrick Scott Hogg presents the greatest of Scotland's poets within the true context of his times. Exploding the Burns myth, Robert Burns: The Patriot Bard replaces the ram-stam lad of popular cliché with the real, living Burns - a Scottish patriot of the heart, an idealist who wished for 'Freedom and Liberty' for his beloved country, but also a man who was pragmatically a British patriot and risked his life for democratic reform. Here Burns is painted in his native colours as a highly complex, hyper-intelligent writer in both prose and poetry, not the semi-confused, contradictory simpleton of previous biographies. The fascinating legend of Burns as a ladies' man is placed where it should be - as less important than the message of the bard. The real day-to-day Burns was irascible, stubborn-minded, independent, controversial and opinionated. He detested many of his social superiors within the feudal order and attacked them as hypocrites and oppressors of the common people. The voice of Burns, always in the language of the people, and his idealist vision of a better world endeared him as a poet of humanity 'the world o'er'. Drawing from Burns' existing canon of poetry and letters, plus some newly attributed works suppressed for over two centuries, this life story is a roller-coaster narrative that charts the success and untimely death of the greatest songwriter of all time, the real Robert Burns.
Download or read book The Works of Robert Burns written by Robert Burns and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Robert Burns a Night in with a Dram and Friends William and Agnes Burness written by David WESTWOOD and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been written to be used with the two quiz books that have already been published, under the titles Robert Burns 100 Questions Vol one and two. Whilst attending Burns suppers it has become abundantly clear that most participant's, guests, and performers would like to know more about Robert Burns and his poetry. It is for this reason I have decided to publish a few more books under the "A Night IN With A Dram And Friends" title to aid with answering the questions in the two previous books mentioned. The new books published will be a more detailed study on the life of Burns.
Download or read book The Works of Robert Burns Including His Letters to Clarinda and the Whole of His Suppressed Poems with an Essay on His Life Genius and Character written by Robert Burns and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The poetical and prose works of Robert Burns with life notes and correspondence by A Cunningham written by Robert Burns and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to English Poets written by Claude Rawson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides lively and authoritative introductions to twenty-nine of the most important British and Irish poets from Geoffrey Chaucer to Philip Larkin. The list includes, among others, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, Browning, Yeats and T. S. Eliot, and represents the tradition of English poetry at its best. Each contributor offers a new assessment of a single poet's achievement and importance, with readings of the most important poems. The essays, written by leading experts, are personal responses, written in clear, vivid language, free of academic jargon, and aim to inform, arouse interest, and deepen understanding.
Download or read book THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS written by Robert Burns and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Robert Burns Poems formerly published with some additions written by Robert Burns and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Robert Burns with His Life written by Robert Burns and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
