A Night Out with Robert Burns
A Night Out with Robert Burns

Author: Robert Burns

Publisher: Canongate Books

Published: 2009-01-15

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 184767450X

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The Scottish poet Robert Burns has been idolised and eulogised. He has been sainted, painted, tarted-up and toasted. He is famous as the author of 'Auld Lang Syne', and he has long been the patron saint of the heartsore and the hungover. But what about the poems? Beneath the cult of Burns Nights and patriotic yawps, there is the work itself, among the purest and most truthful created in any age. This is a Burns collection like no other, introduced, arranged and contextualised by the award-winning novelist and essayist Andrew O'Hagan. Above all, it is an accessible edition made for the pleasure of reading that brings Burns' timeless work to full, riotous, colourful life.

Collected Poems of Robert Burns
Collected Poems of Robert Burns

Author: Robert Burns

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 676

ISBN-13: 9781853264153

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Born in 1759 into miserable rustic poverty, by the age of 18 Burns had acquired a good knowledge of both classical and English literature. This collection includes some of his most famous works such as the ballad "Auld Lang Syne", and "Tam o'Shanter".

Reading Robert Burns
Reading Robert Burns

Author: Carol McGuirk

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1317317351

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Robert Burns is Scotland’s greatest cultural icon. Yet, despite his continued popularity, critical work has been compromised by the myths that have built up around him. McGuirk focuses on Burns’s poems and songs, analysing his use of both vernacular Scots and literary English to provide a unique reading of his work.

Understanding Robert Burns
Understanding Robert Burns

Author: Robert Burns

Publisher: Neil Wilson Publishing

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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Although recognised throughout the world, the poems of Robert Burns are rarely understood. This book gives readers an immediate understanding of 138 of his poems.