The Merry Muses of Caledonia
The Merry Muses of Caledonia

Author: Robert Burns

Publisher: Luath Press Ltd

Published: 2014-01-25

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 1909912786

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The Merry Muses of Caledonia is among Burns' best known, but least read, work. This collection of bawdy poems, some written by and some collected by Burns, ranges from celebrations of spirited women in "Ellibanks", to misogyny in "There was twa wives" and male fantasy in "Nine Inch will please a lady". These engaging poems are not lewd or distasteful but possess a great wit and charm. This new edition updates the 1959 printing, which with engaging accompanying material by James Barke and preface by J. De Lancey Ferguson have made this the definitive version, until now. "The Merry Muses" was always intended to be accompanied by music but the 1959 edition was left incomplete due to Barke's premature death. For the first time the book is completed as it was always meant to be with notes to the tunes created with reference to Barke's unpublished papers. "The Luath Merry Muses" edition also includes bonus material with specially commissioned illustrations from top political satirist Bob Dewar and an introduction by Burns scholar Valentina Bold. Ferguson's work is brought up to date with commentary on the latest critical responses. This new edition will make this classic of Burns' literature more accessible to modern readers.

The Boys' Book of Famous Rulers
The Boys' Book of Famous Rulers

Author: Lydia Hoyt Farmer

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2020-08-03

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 3752401052

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Reproduction of the original: The Boys' Book of Famous Rulers by Lydia Hoyt Farmer

The Bard
The Bard

Author: Robert Crawford

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2011-04-30

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 144646640X

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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.

Tam O'Shanter
Tam O'Shanter

Author: Robert Burns

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-09-16

Total Pages: 25

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Tam O'Shanter" by Robert Burns. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

MERRY MUSES OF CALEDONIA
MERRY MUSES OF CALEDONIA

Author: Robert 1759-1796 Burns

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2016-08-27

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9781371111113

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