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Selected Poems and Songs
Robert Burns
Edited by Robert P. Irvine
496 pages
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2 black and white; 2 maps
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196x129mm
978-0-19-960392-3
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Hardback
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10 January 2013
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- A new selection of Burns's poems and songs using the first published versions of the poems, reflecting the wider social contexts in which they were produced and read by contemporary readers.
- Includes the whole of Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, published in Kilmarnock in 1786, and the volume which made Burns famous.
- Generous selection of songs from The Scots Musical Museum and A Select Collection of Scottish Airs, including their full musical scores.
- Handsomely produced with original illustrations, maps of places often mentioned in Burns's poems, head and tail bands and a ribbon marker, making it an ideal gift.
- Appendices include early reviews and important letters by Burns.
- Glossary of Scots words and Explanatory Notes explaining obscurities, historical references, and composition and publication details. The Notes also include scores of those songs first published with only the name of the tune indicated.
- Introduction examines Burns's life and career and the publication of his poetry and later concentration on song-writing and collecting, and to the political contexts, local and national, of church and state before and after the French Revolution.
'The Poetic Genius of my Country...bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my natal Soil, in my native tongue.'
Many of the poems and songs of Robert Burns (1759-96) are familiar to readers the world over: lyrical, acerbic, comic, bawdy, democratic. They include 'To a Mouse', 'John Anderson my Jo', 'A red red Rose', 'Auld lang syne', 'Tam o 'Shanter' and many more, whose vernacular energy and simple beauty have
ensured lasting popularity. This generous new selection 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 reproduces the whole of Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect published at Kilmarnock in 1786, the volume which made Burns famous; and it reunites a generous selection of songs from The Scots Musical Museum and A Select Collection of Scottish Airs with their full scores. Comprehensive notes describe the circumstances in which other poems and songs found their way into print, both before and after the poet's death. The edition also includes some important letters, and a full glossary to explain Scots words.Readership:
Poetry readers, especially the many lovers of Burns, and readers of Scottish literature; students of eighteenth-century studies, Romantic literature, Scottish history and culture, folklore and folk-song.
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Robert Burns Edited by Robert P. Irvine, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of EdinburghRobert 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).
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"A fantastic little primer for all our Burns suppers." - Music Matters, BBC Radio 3
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Introduction
Chronology
Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Kilmarnock 1786)
from Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Edinburgh 1787)
Songs from The Scots Musical Museum
Song from A Select Collection of Original Scotish Airs, for the Voice (1798-9)
Other poems and songs published in Burns's lifetime
Other poems and songs published posthumously
Maps
Appendix 1: from the Letters
Appendix 2: contemporary reviews of the Kilmarnock Poems
Notes
Further Reading
Index of Titles and First Lines
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