The Works of Robert Burns : with an introduction and bibliography
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1853264156
ISBN 13
9781853264153
Category
Literature & Rhetoric
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Publication Year
1994
Publisher
Pages
600
Subject
English
Description
Robert Burns the most celebrated of all Scottish poets is remembered with great devotion his birthday on 25th January provokes fervour and festivity among Scots and many others the world over Born in 1759 into miserable rustic poverty by the age of eighteen Burns had acquired a good knowledge of both classical and English literature In June 1786 his first collection of verse Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect which included To a Mouse and The Cotters Saturday Night was greeted with huge acclaim by all classes of society His later poems and ballads include Auld Lang Syne the beautiful song My Love is like a Red Red Rose Highland Mary Scots Wha Hae and his masterpiece Tam oShanter - from Amzon
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