This volume includes a selection of Scottish writing from one of its most innovative periods, the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It ranges across literary genres from the controversial 'translations' of James Macpherson's Ossian poems to the prose polemic of Thomas Carlyle. It includes a wide selection from the poetry of Robert Burns, and the complete text of Joanna Baillie's play De Monfort. Footnotes elucidate historical and other references, and Scots words are fully glossed. The introduction places these texts in the dynamic historical context in which this extraordinary literary flourishing occurred. Robert Irvine is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of books on Tobias Smollett, Walter Scott, and Jane Austen.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Very "concise" edition -- more than half of the pages are Burns poetry.,
By Washtublibrarian "Washtublibrarian" (Buffalo, NY USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Edinburgh Anthology of Scottish Literature Concise Edition (Paperback)
This volume is almost exclusively devoted to the poetry of Robert Burns -- excerpts by James MacPherson (from Fragments of Ancient Poetry) and Hugh Blair (from the critical dissertion on Ossian), as well as one play by Joanna Baillie (De Monfort) and the essay "Signs of the Times" by Thomas Carlyle are the only other texts present. For someone interested in an anthology of Scottish literature, there are many far more comprehensive anthologies out there. If you would like a volume of Burns poetry, there are collections of his complete works available which might suit your needs better.
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