Download or read book Selections From the Poems of Robert Burns Classic Reprint written by Robert Burns and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Selections From the Poems of Robert Burns In the character of Robert Bums there is much to love and to honor, and much to pity and to blame. His genius was recognized even during his life, and it made the Ayrshire farmer welcome in the highest Edinburgh society. But his social disposition, and the very love in which he was held among the people, led him into all kinds of excesses and dissipations. William Burnes, the father of the poet, was an honest, hardworking farmer, of an intelligence superior to the average of his class. He was a man of strong religious convictions, and was held in the highest esteem and reverence by his son, who honors his memory in that beautiful picture of ideal domestic peasant life, "The Cotter's Saturday Night." Robert Burns was born in 1759, in a humble two-roomed cottage on the banks of the Doon, near the town of Ayr - "Auld Ayr, wham ne'er a town surpasses, For honest men and bonie lasses." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Robert Burns Poems Classic Reprint written by T. F. Henderson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-29 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Robert Burns Poems Heart's in the Highlands, My Henderson, Captain Matthew, Elegy Highland Welcome, A Highlands, The, My Heart's in Holy Fair, The. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Selections From the Poems of Robert Burns written by Robert Burns and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Selections From the Poems of Robert Burns: Edited With Introduction, Notes, and Vocabulary Professor Dow died suddenly January 21, 1897. His manuscript was to all intents and purposes complete, but it had not received his final revision. The editors of the Athenaeum Press Series regard themselves as fortunate in securing, for the purpose of such a revision, the services of William Allan N eilson, ph.d. (harvard), a graduate of the University of Edinburgh and a close student of Burns. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Poems of Robert Burns Classic Reprint written by Robert Burns and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Poems of Robert Burns The Rights of W oman To Mr. T, i\iaxv1 ell, on his birth-day On Pastoral Poetry Sonnet, 011 Hem 1110 a Thrush Sing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Works of Robert Burns Vol 4 Classic Reprint written by Robert Burns and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Works of Robert Burns, Vol. 4 Speaking silence, dumb confession, Passion's birth, and infant's play, Dove-like fondness, chaste concession. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Works of Robert Burns Vol 2 written by Robert Burns and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Works of Robert Burns, Vol. 2: Poetry Cauld blaws the wind frae east to west, Cease, ye prudes, your envious railing, Clarinda, mistress of my soul. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Poetry of Robert Burns Vol 2 Classic Reprint written by Robert Burns and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Poetry of Robert Burns, Vol. 2 About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Selected Poems of Robert Burns written by Robert Burns and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Selected Poems of Robert Burns: With Biographical Sketch and Notes About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns Classic Reprint written by Robert Burns and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns Tun present edition of Burus'a Complete Poetical Works conforms with the other volumes in the Cambridge series Longfellow, Whittier, Browning, Holmes, and Lowell as regards mechanical features and general treatment, but its edito rial equipment is drawn entirely from the Centenary Burns edited by Messrs. W. E. Henley and T. F. Henderson. By arrangement with Messrs. T. C. E. C. Jack of Edinburgh, the publishers of that work, Messrs. Houghton, Mimin Co. Assumed the publication of the four volumes in America, and also secured the right of issuing the work in one volume in general uniformity with their Cambridge edi tions. The plan of the Centenary Burns was that of a definitive edition. The editors not only reprinted all of the known poems of Burns, but were able to collect some poems not before included. They used a careful judgment in the choice of texts, and accomymied each poem with a minute record of other readings, so that the edition is a variorum one. Not only this; they traced the origin of each poem and gave a full history of its evolution, where, as in many cases, Burns had adapted an existing song to his own use. They explained, moreover, in prefatory and other notes, the personal, historical, and local references, and they supplied a glos nary of terms as well as copious indexes. Finally, Mr. Henley summed up the editorial judgment in an essay at once critical and biographical. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Robert Burns Classic Reprint written by John A. Joyce and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Robert Burns The Poetic life of Robert Burns belongs to the whole world, for his nature was as boundless and brilliant as the stars and the sorrow and disappointment that filled his earthly career find a forgiving sympathy in the hearts of mankind. I take the liberty of translating the vernacular of the Celtic dialect found in the poems of the Bard into plain English, which has never before been done, and endeavor to retain his intention and sense, at the technical expense of the rhyme. This contribution to literature is a rambling, truthful, eloquent lecture upon the salient points in the personal and poetical life of Burns. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Selected Poems of Robert Burns written by Charles W. Kent and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Selected Poems of Robert Burns: Edited, With Introduction and Notes The life of Burns should be known as a whole, the poems in detail. This little book aspires to tell the general reader all he need know of the poet's life, but to tempt him to a fuller first-hand knowledge of the poet's work. As far as possible the origin and setting of each poem have been given that it may thus be identified with his life and become its own interpreter. Apart from a glossary, few notes have been added except by way of analysis or critical comment. The charm of a song often vanishes when you would find its cause, as the voice of a bird is lost forever when you dissect its throat. Better that something now and then should be obscure than that the critics coldness should chill the life-blood of a pulsating lyric and leave it a frozen crystal. The purpose and plan of the book is clear, and should the reader desire more of notes and explanations he may find them in the large editions by Currie, Cunningham, Wallace, etc., or in the tributes to Burns by Carlyle, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Campbell, Scott, Emerson, Lockhart, and others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Poetry of Robert Burns Vol 1 Classic Reprint written by Robert Burns and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Poetry of Robert Burns, Vol. 1 Burns's verse falls naturally into two main divisions. One, and that the larger, appeals with persistency and force, on the strength of some broadly human qualities, to the world in general: for the reason that the world in general is rich in sentiment but lacks the literary sense. The other, being a notable and lasting contribution to literature, is the concern of comparatively few. The present Edition of Burns's verse is primarily addressed to the second of these two bodies of readers. Of necessity, however, it is as nearly complete as existing canons of taste will permit; and 'tis hoped that it will prosper, though for different reasons and on different grounds, with both sections of what, after all, is one, and that a world-wide, public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Poems of Robert Burns Classic Reprint written by Robert Burns and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Poems of Robert Burns To Mr. Maxwell, of Terraughty, Sonnet, on hearing a thrush sing, The Tree Of Liberty, To General Dumourier, Monody on a lady famed for her caprice, Sonnet on the death of Captain Riddel, Lines to a gentleman the author had offended, Epistle from Esopus to Maria, Impromptu on Mrs. Riddel's birth-day, Verses to Miss Graham, of Fintry, The Vowels, To Chloris, Verses to John Rankine, On Sensibility, Address, Spoken by Miss Fontenelle, Address to the Shade of Thomson, Ballads on Mr. Heron's Elections. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Complete Poetical and Prose Works of Robert Burns written by Robert Burns and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Complete Poetical and Prose Works of Robert Burns: With Life, Notes, Correspondence and Glossary While the punishment of incontinence prescribed by the institutions of Scotland is severe, the culprits have an obvious method of avoiding it, afforded them by the law respecting marriage, the validity of which requires neither the ceremonies of the church, nor any other ceremonies, but simply the deliberate acknowledgement of each other as husband and wife, made by the. Parties before witnesses, or in any other way that gives legal evidence of such an acknowledgement having taken place. And as the parties themselves fix the date of their marriage, an opportunity is thus given to avoid the punishment, and repair the con sequences, of illicit gratification. Such a degree of laxity respecting so serious a con tract might produce much confusion in the descent of property without a still farther indulgence; but the law of Scotland, legi timating all children born before wedlock, on the subsequent marriage of their parents, renders the actual date of the marriage itself of little consequence. Marriages con tracted in Scotland without the ceremonies of the church, are considered as irregular, and the parties usually submit to a rebuke for their conduct, in the face of their respective congregations, which is not how ever necessary to render the marriage valid. Burns, whose marriage, it will appear, was irregular, does not seem to have undergone this part of the discipline of the church. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns written by Robert Burns and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns: With Explanatory and Glossarial Notes, and a Life of the Author Epitaph for the Author's Father Inscription to the Memory of Fergusson To Robert Aiken, Esq. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Poetry of Robert Burns Vol 3 Classic Reprint written by William Ernest Henley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Poetry of Robert Burns, Vol. 3 About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Songs of Robert Burns written by James C. Dick and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Songs of Robert Burns: Now First Printed With the Melodies for Which They Were Written; A Study in Tone-Poetry In bringing together for the time the songs of Robert Burns with the melodies for which they were written I do not propose to criticize either. So far as the verses are concerned they have remained famous for more than a century, and are likely to continue famous independent of any literary criticism. So far as the airs are concerned - airs which go to make up the folk-music of Scotland, that particular form of unconscious art of which the vehemence, pathos, and often eccentric progressions have been known outside the limits of the country for the last 250 years - want of space forbids any criticism. A merely verbal description of music cannot convey any real impression to the general reader, and an imperfect technical account of Scottish music would be unsatisfactory to the expert. Both will doubtless prefer to read the music for themselves and form their own opinions. For this reason the Preface will be confined to an explanation of (1) Burns sown theory as a song-writer, (2) how he carried it into practice, and(3) what his qualifications were for writing and adapting his verses to pre-existing music. To begin with, then, the term song as it is now used admits of more than one meaning. Originally it meant - and was invariably - a combination of poetry and music, something to be sung. It did not mean, as it often means nowadays, verse with or without tune; nor was it, like the songs of most modern poets, purely literary verse to which music might accidentally be attached. For Burns's songs, peculiarly, this latter meaning is insufficient, and I designate Burns a tone-poet because he wrote for music, and his songs with their airs are a study in tone-poetry. His Commonplace Book (recording his experience about the age of twenty-three, and before he was known to the world) makes this evident, and shows beyond all doubt that he always associated music with his songs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.