Robert Burns |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 7
Page 5
... written and read , every relic which has been associated with him is passionately treasured , and any odd piece of information which can be connected with Burns is eagerly sought by a host of amateur antiquarians . In this national ...
... written and read , every relic which has been associated with him is passionately treasured , and any odd piece of information which can be connected with Burns is eagerly sought by a host of amateur antiquarians . In this national ...
Page 14
... written for a specific folk - tune ) , preceded by the comment : ' There is certainly some connection be- tween Love and Music and Poetry . . . I never had the least thought or inclination of turning Poet till I once got heartily in ...
... written for a specific folk - tune ) , preceded by the comment : ' There is certainly some connection be- tween Love and Music and Poetry . . . I never had the least thought or inclination of turning Poet till I once got heartily in ...
Page 21
... Written in the old Scottish tradition of poems describing popular festivities , and adopting an old Scottish stanza- form which came down to him through Fergusson ( whose ' Leith Races ' is Burns's model here ) , " The Holy Fair ' des ...
... Written in the old Scottish tradition of poems describing popular festivities , and adopting an old Scottish stanza- form which came down to him through Fergusson ( whose ' Leith Races ' is Burns's model here ) , " The Holy Fair ' des ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Alloway amang amusement antiquarian Armour assurance Ayrshire biographical material Bonamy Dobrée Britain's guid Burns cult Burns suppers Caesar Calvinist collected Commonplace Book Cotter's Saturday Night critical dance tunes Dumfries E. W. F. Tomlin Edinburgh literati Edmund Blunden eighteenth-century English emotional exhibitionist express farm Fergusson folk-song GEORGE ORWELL God's GREEN heart Holy Fair Holy Willie's Prayer humorous James Jean JOHN Jolly Beggars Kathleen Raine Kilmarnock volume lady large number lasses Louse medieval Scottish poets Middle Scots Mountain Daisy older Scots omitted passion poem that Burns poetic popular predestined R. A. Scott-James Ramsay Ramsay's real Burns ROBERT BURNS rustic satiric poems Scotland Scots Musical Museum Scottish art Scottish culture Scottish Dialect Scottish folk tradition Scottish literary tradition Scottish literature Scottish song selection of Burns's sentimental sentimentalists sixteenth-century Scottish poet social song writer technical thee thou tion tone traditional Scottish turning Twa Dogs vols words World's Classics wrote in English