Robert Burns (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Fraser, John) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Robert Burns Dear Friend Franser: I feel unable to express the pleasure with which I received the first number of your brother´s very popular lectures and do trust that they will meet with the success they so well merit. As a truly representative Scotch writer I think he stood alone in this great city, and as a Lecturer it will be difficult to get anyone to fill his place. Seeing the form the lectures are in, you might at your earliest convenience issue his one on "Robert Burns," as from the many talks we have had - during the time he was in charge of the literary department of my office - I know that Burns was his favorite poet. Even now his vivid description of the land of Burns rises up before me, as if painted on canvas, and I can almost see the small thatched cottage with its single door, two small windows, and its "but and ben" where the great poet was born; with the auld Kirk O´Alloway in its immediate vicinity; or standing on the poet´s monument, view the beautiful scenery, more like an Italian than a Scotch scene, and see one of the reasons why Burns´s songs are so pastoral in there character; or listening catch the low rumbling sound of the river as it passes through the "Auld and the New Brigs O´Ayr". Your brother seemed to treat Burns in his home life, as if he was personally known to him, and often have I listened as he told of the trials he shared along with his father, whom he simply adored, working away with a will, to make the barren soil yield a return for the labor expended. But it was when speaking of Burns as a poet that he seemed to forget himself, in his anxiety to give a proper estimate of the beauty of his verse; quoting song after song to illustrate his meaning, now with boyish gleesomeness singing a snatch of "When the Kye Comes Hame," crooning over quietly, "Ye Banks and Braes," all the while keeping time with his foot, or. reciting the "Cottars Saturday Night" with a pathetic and real intensity that once heard can never be forgotten. 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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