Robert Burns, the most celebrated of all Scottish poets, is remembered with great devotion - his birthday on 25th January provokes fervour and festivity among Scots and many others the world over. Born in 1759 into miserable rustic poverty, by the age of eighteen Burns had acquired a good knowledge of both classical and English literature. In June 1786 his first collection of verse, Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, which included To a Mouse and The Cotter's Saturday Night, was greeted with huge acclaim by all classes of society. His later poems and ballads include Auld Lang Syne, the beautiful song My Love is like a Red Red Rose, Highland Mary, Scots Wha Hae and his masterpiece, Tam o'Shanter.
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I can operate a Xerox machine better than this,
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This is a poor, sloppily bound mess. Seems to be a Xerox copy of only the second volume (not even the fourth as is indicated) of the sixth edition of an 1809 four volume collection. Some of the pages are not even copied straight. Compiled with no notes, no glossary, no thought or imagination. Only contains some of Burns' letters containing some of his poetry. Worthless without context. Would be an insult to my shelves and certainly to the Bard. I should have been tipped off by the sophomoric product description. Back it goes.
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whistle owre, gallant weaver, count the lawin, winsome wee thing, sae sweet, bonnie lad, yon town, bower door, braw lads, nae mair, sae fair, bonnie lass, bonnie face, auld man, auld wife, bonnie banks, nae doubt, far awa, fond kiss, thy charms, bonnie blue Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tam Samson, John Barleycorn, John Highlandman, Tam Glen, Willie Chalmers, Gala Water, Highland Mary, Castle Gordon, Here's Heron, Lass of Albany, Logan Braes, Lord Gregory, Montgomerie's Peggy, Polly Stewart, Tibbie Dunbar, Bonnie Highland, Eppie M'Nab, Jock Rab, Mary Morison, Peg Nicholson, Rob Mossgiel, Saint Stephen, Sir Robert, Willie Stewart, Auld Ayr New!
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whistle owre, gallant weaver, count the lawin, winsome wee thing, sae sweet, bonnie lad, yon town, bower door, braw lads, nae mair, sae fair, bonnie lass, bonnie face, auld man, auld wife, bonnie banks, nae doubt, far awa, fond kiss, thy charms, bonnie blue Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tam Samson, John Barleycorn, John Highlandman, Tam Glen, Willie Chalmers, Gala Water, Highland Mary, Castle Gordon, Here's Heron, Lass of Albany, Logan Braes, Lord Gregory, Montgomerie's Peggy, Polly Stewart, Tibbie Dunbar, Bonnie Highland, Eppie M'Nab, Jock Rab, Mary Morison, Peg Nicholson, Rob Mossgiel, Saint Stephen, Sir Robert, Willie Stewart, Auld Ayr New!
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