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Author : Walter Jenkinson Kaye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : English poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010503485
Author : Walter J Kaye
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1020758759
This book introduces the leading Scottish poets from early times and highlights their contributions to Scottish literature. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Robert Burns
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Page : 1205 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9783986470227
Poems and Songs of Robert Burns Robert Burns - Robert Burns (1759 – 1796) called himself "an Aeolian harp strung to every wind of heaven." His first volume of poems, entitled Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, was published in 1786. An immediate success, it established Burns's poetic reputation, which has grown over two centuries to the point where he is not only the Scottish national poet but the object of a cult unique in British poetry. The present volume contains 43 of his finest poems and songs, reprinted unabridged from an authoritative tenth-century edition. Included are "The Twa Dogs," a deft satire of the Scottish upper classes; "To a Mouse," one of the poet's best known, most charming works; "Address to the Unco Guid," an attack on Puritan hypocrisy; "Holy Willie's Prayer," one of the great verse-satires of all times; as well as such favorites as "The Cotter's Saturday Night," "To a Mountain Daisy," "The Holy Fair," "Address to the Deil," "The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie," and many more. It is not necessary here to attempt to disentangle or explain away the numerous amours in which he was engaged through the greater part of his life. It is evident that Burns was a man of extremely passionate nature and fond of conviviality; and the misfortunes of his lot combined with his natural tendencies to drive him to frequent excesses of self-indulgence. He was often remorseful, and he strove painfully, if intermittently, after better things. But the story of his life must be admitted to be in its externals a painful and somewhat sordid chronicle. That it contained, however, many moments of joy and exaltation is proved by the poems here printed. Burns' poetry falls into two main groups: English and Scottish. His English poems are, for the most part, inferior specimens of conventional eighteenth-century verse. But in Scottish poetry he achieved triumphs of a quite extraordinary kind. Since the time of the Reformation and the union of the crowns of England and Scotland, the Scots dialect had largely fallen into disuse as a medium for dignified writing. Shortly before Burns' time, however, Allan Ramsay and Robert Fergusson had been the leading figures in a revival of the vernacular, and Burns received from them a national tradition which he succeeded in carrying to its highest pitch, becoming thereby, to an almost unique degree, the poet of his people. He first showed complete mastery of verse in the field of satire. In "The Twa Herds," "Holy Willie's Prayer," "Address to the Unco Guid," "The Holy Fair," and others, he manifested sympathy with the protest of the so-called "New Light" party, which had sprung up in opposition to the extreme Calvinism and intolerance of the dominant "Auld Lichts." The fact that Burns had personally suffered from the discipline of the Kirk probably added fire to his attacks, but the satires show more than personal animus. The force of the invective, the keenness of the wit, and the fervor of the imagination which they displayed, rendered them an important force in the theological liberation of Scotland. The Kilmarnock volume contained, besides satire, a number of poems like "The Twa Dogs" and "The Cotter's Saturday Night," which are vividly descriptive of the Scots peasant life with which he was most familiar; and a group like "Puir Mailie" and "To a Mouse," which, in the tenderness of their treatment of animals, revealed one of the most attractive sides of Burns' personality. Many of his poems were never printed during his lifetime, the most remarkable of these being "The Jolly Beggars," a piece in which, by the intensity of his imaginative sympathy and the brilliance of his technique, he renders a picture of the lowest dregs of society in such a way as to raise it into the realm of great poetry
Author : Walter J. Kaye
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1290923582
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Walter Jenkinson Kaye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : English poetry
ISBN : OCLC:810943935
Author : Walter J. Kaye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0827414358
Author : John Veitch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : English poetry
ISBN : HARVARD:32044094198793
Author : George Watson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1698 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1971-07-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521079349
More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 2 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
Author : David Herschell Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : English poetry
ISBN : MSU:31293016860912
Author : David Herschell Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : English poetry
ISBN : HARVARD:32044094198801
Author : David Herschell Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : English poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010506215
Author : Helena Mennie Shire
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521148294
This study examines the song repertory and two poets, Alexander Scott and Alexander Montgomerie, in sixteenth-century Scotland.
Author : Scottish poets
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555002773
Author : Robert Burns
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-24
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1482063654
Poems and Songs of Robert Burns. Complete and in chronological order: 1771 - 1796. Includes a unique 1,980 word glossary so you can decipher the language of Robert Burns Burns' poetry falls into two main groups: English and Scottish. His English poems are, for the most part, inferior specimens of conventional eighteenth-century verse. But in Scottish poetry he achieved triumphs of a quite extraordinary kind. Since the time of the Reformation and the union of the crowns of England and Scotland, the Scots dialect had largely fallen into disuse as a medium for dignified writing. Shortly before Burns' time, however, Allan Ramsay and Robert Fergusson had been the leading figures in a revival of the vernacular, and Burns received from them a national tradition which he succeeded in carrying to its highest pitch, becoming thereby, to an almost unique degree, the poet of his people. He first showed complete mastery of verse in the field of satire. In "The Twa Herds," "Holy Willie's Prayer," "Address to the Unco Guid," "The Holy Fair," and others, he manifested sympathy with the protest of the so-called "New Light" party, which had sprung up in opposition to the extreme Calvinism and intolerance of the dominant "Auld Lichts." The fact that Burns had personally suffered from the discipline of the Kirk probably added fire to his attacks, but the satires show more than personal animus. The force of the invective, the keenness of the wit, and the fervor of the imagination which they displayed, rendered them an important force in the theological liberation of Scotland. Robert Burns (25 January 1759 - 21 July 1796) was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in English and a light Scots dialect, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland. He also wrote in standard English, and in these his political or civil commentary is often at its bluntest.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Poetry
ISBN : NYPL:33433076020068