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Selected Poems and Songs

ISBN: 9780199603923 | 0199603928

Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 4/1/2013

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Summary Table of Contents Author Biography

From "My love is like a red, red rose" to "the best laid schemes of mice and men" to the timeless words of Auld Lang Syne, the poems and songs of Robert Burns are familiar to readers the world over. Lyrical, acerbic, comic, bawdy, democratic--they have a vernacular energy and simple beauty that have ensured their lasting popularity.

This marvelous new selection offers Burns's work as it was first encountered by contemporary readers, presenting the texts as they were originally published. It reproduces in its entirety the volume... MORE which made Burns famous--Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, published at Kilmarnock in 1786--and it showcases a generous selection of songs from The Scots Musical Museum and A Select Collection of Scottish Airs, complete with their full scores. Robert Irvine's Introduction examines Burns's life and career, the publication of his poetry, his later concentration on song writing and song collecting, and the political contexts in which he wrote, both local and national, before and after the French Revolution. 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 early reviews and important letters by Burns, a glossary of Scots words that explain obscure expressions, and explanatory notes clarifying historical references, composition and publication details, and much more.

Handsomely produced with original illustrations, maps of places often mentioned in Burns's poems, head and tail bands, and a ribbon marker, this superb selection makes an ideal gift for anyone who loves poetry, folk music, Scottish culture, or Romantic literature.

'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 wereoriginally 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.

This volume 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 includes the whole of Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786), a generous selection of songs with full scores, comprehensive notes, some important letters and a glossary.

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Introduction
Chronology
Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Kilmarnock 1786)from Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Edinburgh 1787) Songs from The Scots Musical Museum
Song from A Select Collection of Original Scotish Airs, for the Voice (1798-9)
Other poems and songs published in Burns's lifetime
Other poems and songs published posthumously
Maps
Appendix 1: from the Letters
Appendix 2: contemporary reviews of the Kilmarnock Poems
Notes
Further Reading
Index of Titles and First Lines
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Robert P. Irvine is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He has written on Jane Austen and is the editor of the two-volume Edinburgh Anthology of Scottish Literature.

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