A Night Out with Robert Burns

A Night Out with Robert Burns PDF Author: Robert Burns
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 184767450X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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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.

A Night Out with Robert Burns

A Night Out with Robert Burns PDF Author: Robert Burns
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 184767450X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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Book Description
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.

Night Out with Robert Burns, a the Greatest Poems

Night Out with Robert Burns, a the Greatest Poems PDF Author: Robert Burns
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781847673817
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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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.

A Night Out with Robert Burns

A Night Out with Robert Burns PDF Author: Robert Burns
Publisher: Douglas Gibson Books
ISBN: 155199383X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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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."

The Cotter's Saturday Night

The Cotter's Saturday Night PDF Author: Robert Burns
Publisher: Chicago : J. C. Winston
ISBN:
Category : Gift books
Languages : en
Pages : 82

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The Works of Robert Burns; with an Account of His Life, and a Criticism of His Writings, &c

The Works of Robert Burns; with an Account of His Life, and a Criticism of His Writings, &c PDF Author: Robert Burns
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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Tam O'Shanter

Tam O'Shanter PDF Author: Robert Burns
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 25

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Tam O'Shanter" by Robert Burns. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

The Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

The Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns PDF Author: Robert Burns
Publisher: Waverley Books Limited
ISBN: 9781849342322
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"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.

Poems and Songs

Poems and Songs PDF Author: Robert Burns
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scottish poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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A Red, Red Rose

A Red, Red Rose PDF Author: Robert Burns
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Full text of the poem.

The Collected Poems

The Collected Poems PDF Author: Sylvia Plath
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062669451
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Pulitzer Prize winner Sylvia Plath’s complete poetic works, edited and introduced by Ted Hughes. By the time of her death on 11, February 1963, Sylvia Plath had written a large bulk of poetry. To my knowledge, she never scrapped any of her poetic efforts. With one or two exceptions, she brought every piece she worked on to some final form acceptable to her, rejecting at most the odd verse, or a false head or a false tail. Her attitude to her verse was artisan-like: if she couldn’t get a table out of the material, she was quite happy to get a chair, or even a toy. The end product for her was not so much a successful poem, as something that had temporarily exhausted her ingenuity. So this book contains not merely what verse she saved, but—after 1956—all she wrote. — Ted Hughes, from the Introduction