Selected Poems
Robert Burns author Carol McGuirk editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:2nd Dec '93
£8.99
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This selection gives equal weight to the two aspects of Robert Burns's reputation, as a lyricist and as a much-loved Scottish poet. Placing works in probable order of composition, it includes lyrics to his most well known songs, such as the nostalgic Auld Lang Syne, the romantic A Red, Red Rose, and the patriotic Scots What Hae. As a poet, Burns wrote with deceptive simplicity and imaginative sympathy, and demonstrated enormous range - from comic dramatic monologues such as Holy Willie's Prayer, which mocks hypocrisy, to narratives including the celebrated Tam O' Shanter, about the ghostly visions of a drunk.
ISBN: 9780140423822
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 21mm
Weight: 269g
368 pages