Robert Burns |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 34
Page 28
Burns's career as a song writer was made possible to a large degree by the work of these earlier collectors ; as in so many other fields , his work here represented the culmination of a tradition , not the birth of a new one .
Burns's career as a song writer was made possible to a large degree by the work of these earlier collectors ; as in so many other fields , his work here represented the culmination of a tradition , not the birth of a new one .
Page 129
Coming to ' Poor Mailie's Elegy ' after reading the earlier poems , we see at once the tradition in which Burns was working : salt copestone Lament in rhyme , lament in prose , Wi ' saut tears trickling down your nose ; Our Bardie's ...
Coming to ' Poor Mailie's Elegy ' after reading the earlier poems , we see at once the tradition in which Burns was working : salt copestone Lament in rhyme , lament in prose , Wi ' saut tears trickling down your nose ; Our Bardie's ...
Page 218
His earlier gesture towards joining the army as a way of escape had certainly not meant the purchase of a commission , but , as we have seen , had been associated in his mind with the idea of becoming a ...
His earlier gesture towards joining the army as a way of escape had certainly not meant the purchase of a commission , but , as we have seen , had been associated in his mind with the idea of becoming a ...
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
appeared auld become beginning Burns Burns's century chorus clear collection critical death described drinking earlier early Edinburgh edition effect English expression fact Fair farm feeling Fergusson final follows frae friends genteel give hand happy heart Holy human idea interest James Jean John Kilmarnock kind later less letter lines literary literature lively look meet mind moral moves Museum nature never night opening original perhaps period piece poem poet poetic poetry poor pride printed produced published Ramsay reading remarkable rhyme Robert Scotland Scots Scottish seems sense sentimental simple social song stanza suggestion thee thing Thomson thou thought tradition tune turn verse volume whole writing written wrote young