Product Details

• Actors: Robert Burns
• Directors: Malcolm Hossick
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: KULTUR VIDEO
• DVD Release Date: March 25, 2008
• Run Time: 30 minutes
• ASIN: B0012EM59M
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #229,615 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Drawing on old maps, contemporary drawings and paintings, portraits and other archive material, the excellent Famous Authors series not only presents a factual outline of the writers lives, but also conveys a clear visual picture of the social and historical background to their writing. Recommended for all ages. THE GOOD BOOK GUIDE

Scottish poet Robert Burns' works are known and loved wherever the English language is read. Burns touched with his own genius the traditional folk songs of Scotland, transmuting them into great poetry, and he immortalized its countryside and humble farm life. He was a keen and discerning satirist who reserved his sharpest barbs for sham, hypocrisy, and cruelty. His satirical verse, once little appreciated, has in recent decades been recognized widely as his finest work. He was also a master of the verse-narrative technique, as exemplified in Tam O'Shanter. His love songs, perfectly fitted to the tunes for which he wrote them, are, at their best, unsurpassed.
In 1784 Burns read the works of the Edinburgh poet Robert Fergusson and that of Scottish folk tradition and older Scottish Poetry. He became aware of the literary possibilities of the Scottish regional dialects.
Burns' later literary output consisted almost entirely of songs, both original compositions and adaptations of traditional Scottish ballads and folk songs. Beginning in 1792 Burns wrote about 100 songs and some humorous verse. Among his songs in this collection are such favorites as Auld Lang Syne, Comin' Thro the Rye, Scots Wha Hae, A Red, Red, Rose, The Banks o' Doon, and John Anderson, My Jo. .

TITLES IN THE SERIES:

JANE AUSTEN
WILLIAM BLAKE
THE BRONTË SISTERS
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
DANIEL DEFOE
CHARLES DICKENS
GEORGE ELIOT
WILLIAM FAULKNER
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
THOMAS HARDY
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
VICTOR HUGO
HENRY JAMES
SAMUEL JOHNSON
JAMES JOYCE
JOHN KEATS
D.H. LAWRENCE
HERMAN MELVILLE
EUGENE O' NEILL
GEORGE ORWELL
EDGAR ALLAN POE
MARCEL PROUST
SIR WALTER SCOTT
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
JOHN STEINBECK