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Author : Robert Burns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1800
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590185867
Author : Robert Crawford
Publisher : Random House
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446466407
No writer is more charismatic than Robert Burns and no biographer has captured his energy, brilliance and radicalism as well as Robert Crawford does in The Bard. To his international admirers Burns was a genius, a hero, a warm-hearted friend; yet to the mother of one of his lovers he was a wastrel, to a fellow poet he was 'sprung...from raking of dung', and to his political enemies a 'traitor'. Drawing on a surprising variety of untapped sources - from rediscovered poetry by Burns to manuscript journals, correspondence, interviews and oratory by his contemporaries - this new biography presents the remarkable life, loves and struggles of the great poet. With a poet's insight and a shrewd sense of human drama, Robert Crawford outlines how Burns combined a childhood steeped in the peasant song-culture of rural Scotland with a consummate linguistic artistry to become not only the world's most popular love poet but also the controversial master poet of modern democracy. Written with accessible élan and nuanced attention to Burns's poems and letters, The Bard is the story of an extraordinary man fighting to maintain a sly sense of integrity in the face of overwhelming pressures. This incisive, intelligent biography startlingly demonstrates why the life and work of Scotland's greatest poet still compels the attention of the world a quarter of a millennium after his birth.
Author : Ian McIntyre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Poets, Scottish
ISBN : 156649205X
Ian McIntyre's biography gives a careful analysis of Burn's songs and poetry and strips away the legend to explore what lies beneath. The figure that emerges is sharper, less idealized, perhaps more truly great, than in any previous biography.
Author : Robert Burns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1824
Category : Scotland
ISBN : PRNC:32101068596160
Author : Robert Burns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1815
Category : English poetry
ISBN : NLS:B000229631
Author : Robert Burns,Allan Cunningham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : Ballads, Scots
ISBN : HARVARD:HWJ9T4
Author : John Gibson Lockhart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89097269906
Author : Robert Burns
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199603176
Volume 1. Commonplace books, tour journals, and miscellaneous prose / edited by Nigel Leask.
Author : James Alexander Mackay
Publisher : Stenlake Publishing
Page : 749 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Poets, Scottish
ISBN : 0907526853
Originally published in 1992 by Mainstream Publishing Company (Edinburgh) Ltd.
Author : Joanne Findon,Ted Nasmith
Publisher : Markham, Ont. : Stoddart Kids
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004-12-30
Category : Poets, Scottish
ISBN : 1550051210
Because of his humble beginnings and his whole-hearted affection for Scotland and her common folk, Robert Burns was able to record and compose poems and songs that speak to people from every walk of life. He was, and still is, one of Scotland's best-loved sons. Two centuries after his death and in the true spirit of auld lang syne, literally old long since, Joanne Findon and Ted Nasmith have collaborated on this beautiful and personal glimpse into the life and times of Robert Burns. From his birth to almost the close of his life, this narrative reveals the events and influences that shaped the poet's work.
Author : Robert Burns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11663877
Author : Robert Burns
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1926-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465525413
Author : Ian McIntyre
Publisher : HarperAudio
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015037464685
Ian McIntyre's biography, published to mark the bicentenary of Burns's death, strips away myth and legend and explores what lies beneath. It is based meticulously on documentary and archival sources, and uses only the first-hand testimony of those who knew the man. It sets Burns in his historical context, and paints both his emotional life and his political views in vivid colours. On public matters he had no difficulty in holding simultaneously two views that were contradictory. In his private life he could be effortlessly in love with several women at the same time, appallingly cruel one moment, wonderfully tender the next. McIntyre offers a more extensive evaluation of Burns's songs and poetry than most previous biographers. He stresses the importance and quality of the satirical verse, as well as the haunting love poems for which Scotland's 'bard' is best known. In an illuminating final chapter, he examines the extraordinary ramifications assumed after the death of the poet by the Burns legend, a fantastical 'afterlife' bearing little resemblance to biographical reality.
Author : Robert Burns
Publisher : Chicago : J. C. Winston
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Gift books
ISBN : HARVARD:32044086782760
Author : Jerry Brannigan,John McShane
Publisher : Waverley Books Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02
Category : Edinburgh (Scotland)
ISBN : 1849341710
Today Robert Burns is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and people all over the world annually celebrate Burns Night on 25 January. Famous now for Auld Lang Syne, Scots Wha Hae, and A Man's A Man for A' That, Rabbie inspires Scots to be proud of Scotland. When he arrived in Edinburgh in November 1786 Burns was unknown, but within days the 'Ploughman Poet' was the talk of the capital, mixing in a circle of wealthy and important new friends. Edinburgh was changing quickly and it was the time of the Scottish Enlightenment, a period of great intellectual and scientific achievement. Burns' experiences during his stay in Edinburgh, including love affairs and fathering illegitimate children, were to influence much of his work to come. His friendship with Agnes 'Nancy' McLehose led to the poem, Ae Fond Kiss, among others. To capture the events of these vital months, three Burns enthusiasts from Glasgow - Jerry Brannigan, John McShane and David Alexander - have newly researched this period in Burns' life for this book. Gain a sense of this fascinating man, city and time by dipping into this book as you stroll through the capital, or by reading it at your leisure. Book jacket.