Selected Poems and Songs

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Robert Burns Robert P. Irvine (Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh)

Selected Poems and Songs

Robert Burns, Robert P. Irvine (Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh)

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Oxford University Press
10 January 2013

Folk & traditional music; Poetry; Poetry by individual poets; Regional & national history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900

Series: Oxford World's Classics

'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.

By: Robert Burns
Edited by: Robert P. Irvine (Senior Lecturer in English Literature University of Edinburgh)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 201mm, Width: 149mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780199603923
ISBN 10: 0199603928
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 10 January 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active