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Selected Poems and Songs
Selected Poems and Songs
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The Poetic Genius of my Country...bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my natal Soil, in my native tongue.'

Many of the poems and songs of Robert Burns (1759-96) are familiar to readers the world over: lyrical, acerbic, comic, bawdy, democratic. They include 'To a Mouse', 'John Anderson my Jo', 'A red red Rose', 'Auld lang syne', 'Tam o 'Shanter' and many more, whose vernacular energy and simple beauty have ensured lasting popularity. This generous new selection offers Burns's work as it was first encountered by contemporary readers, presenting the texts in the contexts in which they were originally published. It reproduces the whole of Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect published at Kilmarnock in 1786, the volume which made Burns famous; and it reunites a generous selection of songs from The Scots Musical Museum and A Select Collection of Scottish Airs with their full scores. Comprehensive notes describe the circumstances in which other poems and songs found their way into print, both before and after the poet's death. The edition also includes some important letters, and a full glossary to explain Scots words.

Index: 

Introduction
Chronology
Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Kilmarnock 1786)
from Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Edinburgh 1787)
Songs from The Scots Musical Museum
Song from A Select Collection of Original Scotish Airs, for the Voice (1798-9)
Other poems and songs published in Burns's lifetime
Other poems and songs published posthumously
Maps
Appendix 1: from the Letters
Appendix 2: contemporary reviews of the Kilmarnock Poems
Notes
Further Reading
Index of Titles and First Lines

About the author: 

Robert P. Irvine has written on Jane Austen and is the editor of The Edinburgh Anthology of Scottish Literature, 2 vols. (Kennedy and Boyd, 2009) and R. L. Stevenson's Prince Otto for the New Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (forthcoming).

Product details

ISBN : 9780199603923

Author: 
Robert Burns; Robert P. Irvine
Pages
496 Pages
Format
Hardcover
Size
149 x 201 mm
Pub date
Jan 2013
Series
Oxford World's Classics
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Selected Poems and Songs

Selected Poems and Songs

Selected Poems and Songs