Representative Poems of Robert Burns
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Representative Poems of Robert Burns: With Carlyle´s Essay on Burns As the poetry of Burns is his best biography, it has seemed only fair, in preparing the second edition of Carlyle´s Essay, to introduce representative poems. In connection with the chronological arrangement, brief introductions seem necessary, and it is hoped that the few comments will stimulate thought and encourage intelligent criticism. In order that the poems may seem less formidable to those who dread the Scotch dialect, the vocabulary appears in the footnotes. After one has read the poems the short account of Burns´s life may be helpful, and the reading of the poet and of his life will enable one to appreciate and enjoy Carlyle. Phillips Brooks, in speaking of a biography, once said to the Phillips Exeter boys, "Your reading will be a live thing if you can feel the presence of your two companions, and make them, as it were, feel yours." Carlyle has introduced us to Burns so happily that there is no excuse for our not following this and another suggestion given in the same lecture: "Never lay the biography down until the man is a living, breathing, acting person. Then you may close and lose and forget the book; the man is yours forever." Time and again I have been surprised and delighted, after reading a tolerably good account of the poet, to find the substance of it in a form much more compact and beautiful in Carlyle´s Essay. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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