Author: Robert Burns
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 526

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Author: Carol McGuirk
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317317351
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Robert Burns is Scotland’s greatest cultural icon. Yet, despite his continued popularity, critical work has been compromised by the myths that have built up around him. McGuirk focuses on Burns’s poems and songs, analysing his use of both vernacular Scots and literary English to provide a unique reading of his work.

Author: Francis Hutcheson Professor of Scottish Literature Gerard Carruthers
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019884624X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 657

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The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns treats the extensive writing of and culture surrounding Scotland's national 'bard'. Robert Burns (1759-96) was a producer of lyrical verse, satirical poetry, in English and Scots, a song-writer and song-collector, a writer of bawdry, journals, commonplace books and correspondence. Sculpting his own image, his untutored rusticity was a sincere persona as much as it was not entirely accurate. Burns was an antiquarian, national patriot, pioneer of what today we would call 'folk culture', and a man of the Enlightenment and Romanticism. The Handbook considers Burns's reception in his own time and beyond, extending to his iconic status as a world-writer. Burns was important to the English Romantic poets, in the context of debates about Abolition in the US, in the Victorian era he was widely utilised as a model for different kinds of popular poetry and he has been utilised as a contestant in debates surrounding Scottish and, indeed, British politics, in peacetime and in wartime down to the present day. The writer's afterlife includes not only a large number of biographies but a whole culture of commemoration in art, architecture, fiction, material culture, museum-exhibition and even forged manuscripts and memorabilia as well as appearances, apparently, via Spiritualist seances. The politics of his work channel the fierce debates of late eighteenth-century Scottish ecclesiastical controversy as well as the ages of American, Agrarian and French revolutions. All of this ground is traversed in this Handbook, the largest critical compendium ever assembled about Robert Burns.

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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms
Languages : en
Pages : 832

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Author: Walter Cochrane Bronson
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 562

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Author: Walter Cochrane Bronson
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 562

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Author: Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-York
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 582

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Author: Leslie Stephen
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1410

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Author: Minneapolis Public Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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Author: Mercantile Library Company (PHILADELPHIA)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 728

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