Selected Poems and Songs

Zusatztext A fantastic little primer for all our Burns suppers. Informationen zum Autor Robert P. Irvine has written on Jane Austen and is the editor of The Edinburgh Anthology of Scottish Literature, 2 vols. (Kennedy and Boyd, 2009) and R. L. Stevenson's Prince Otto for the New Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (forthcoming). Zusammenfassung This volume offers Burns's work as it was first encountered by contemporary readers, presenting the texts in the contexts in which they were originally published. It includes the whole of Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786), a generous selection of songs with full scores, comprehensive notes, some important letters and a glossary.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Burns, Burns Robert
• Assisted by: Robert P. Irvine (Editor), Robert P. (Senior Lecturer in English Literature Irvine (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2013
• EAN: 9780199603923
• ISBN: 978-0-19-960392-3
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 203 mm x 26 mm
• Series: Oxford World's Classics; Oxford World's Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, POETRY / General, Scotland, Regional & national history, HISTORY / World, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Poetry by individual poets, Folk & traditional music, General and world history, C 1700 To C 1800, Folk, Folkloric styles, Traditional and folk music