Selected PoemsPenguin UK, 17.01.2005 - 368 Seiten 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. |
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When First I Came to Stewart Kyle | |
A Poets Welcome to His LoveBegotten Daughter | |
To the Rev John MMath | |
To a Louse | |
The Cotters Saturday Night | |
Address to the Deil | |
Elegy on the Death of Robert Ruisseaux | |
My Peggys Face | |
Lassie Lie Near | |
Ae Fond Kiss | |
Ode to Spring | |
Scottish History and Literature Before Burns | |
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