Reading Robert Burns: texts, contexts, transformations

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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 proved a unique reading of his work. Well-known and obscure texts are discussed and set in the context of the time they were written, and the influence of earlier and contemporary poets is considered. The work will shed…

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Full title :Reading Robert Burns : texts, contexts, transformations / by Carol McGuirk.

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Publication Date:2014.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Pickering & Chatto
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

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Description:xix, 255 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

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ISBN:9781848935198, 1848935196, 9781781444986, 1781444986
oclc:ocn885230603
LC Classification:PR4338
Dewey Decimal:821.6

Introduction, with a brief history of Burns's relation of literary canons -- Rob . Burness to Poet Burns: Bard, interrupted -- "If thou indeed derive thy light from Heaven': Wordsworth responds to Burns -- Highlands: Burns, Lady Nairne and national song -- Three drunk men: Visionary midnight in Robert Fergusson, Burns and Hugh MacDiarmid -- Epilogue: Burns and Aphorism; or Poetry into Proverb.