Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Selected Poems A selection of Burns's poems and songs, arranged in the order of composition and using the original texts where possible. This edition gives equal weight to Burns as song-writer and poet, providing lyrics and tunes where applicable.
Full description- Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
- Published: 03 May 1994
- Format: Paperback 368 pages
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- Categories: Poetry By Individual Poets
- ISBN 13: 9780140423822 ISBN 10: 0140423826
- Sales rank: 210,966
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Full description for Selected Poems
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.
