Author: N. Farquhar Orr
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Languages : en
Pages : 8

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Author: James Currie
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330206782
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 605

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Excerpt from The Life of Robert Burns: With a Criticism on His Writings; Originally Published in Connection With the Works of Burns, in 1800; Here Considerably Extended by Additional Particulars, Many of Which Were Never Before Made Public In introducing this edition of Robert Burns's Poetical Works to the public, the Editor has to state that his aim has been to produce, as far as possible, an edition which might lay claim to completeness. He is aware that many readers, whose opinion he has every desire to respect, may not agree with him as to the propriety of reproducing every line of each poem in all cases; but a very considerable experience of men in relation to books induces him to believe that a large proportion of the reading public - and that not the least fastidious in matters of feeling and taste - prefer to have an author's works as they came from his pen. He also believes that the number of Bowdlerised editions of popular authors which circulate at the present day is the result of a want of courage on the part of publishers, who have a dread of offending the fancied over-sensitiveness of the bulk of the reading public; for he does not believe that such a feeling exists to an extent which would warrant the indiscreet purification of the bulk of our standard literature. No admirer of the poet can defend the too frequent coarseness of many of the poems; but it should be remembered that Burns himself, in the two editions of his works which he lived to see through the press, did not include any of those which offend against good taste; - most of them refer to purely local matters, and were evidently looked upon by the Poet as the mere fugitive emanations of his Muse, hurriedly produced for the amusement of his friends. No poet was so prodigal in giving MS. copies of his poems to his intimates and correspondents; and after his death, when every line he had written was eagerly collected and read, no difficulty was found in gathering them together, and no regard for the Poet's memory or good name prevented their publication. While the occasional grossness of Burns is not to be denied, it may with safety be affirmed that there is positively nothing demoralising or seductively impure in his writings - nothing that can for one moment be put in comparison with the deliberate and pernicious prurience of the modern sensation novel, which finds its thousands of readers. In a sense, the bad even springs from the good - "Misled by Fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from Heaven." 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.

Author: Robert Burns
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Author: Robert Burns
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 514

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Author: Robert Creeley
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 102

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As on a quiet walk through a familiar landscape, the poet leads us along paths fo recolletion. Thoughts turn back upon themselves, evoking half-forgtten intangibles of past moments.

Author: Robert Burns
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Category : Fore-edge painting
Languages : en
Pages : 710

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Author: Robert Burns
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Languages : en
Pages : 516

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Author: Robert Burns
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781341995231
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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Author: Robert Burns
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Languages : en
Pages : 662

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Author: Robert Burns
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781290038249
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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