The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Poems, Songs, and Correspondence.: With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Poems, Songs, and Correspondence.: With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
Scotland's national poet wrote with the raw voice of a farmer and the soul of a revolutionary. Robert Burns transformed the Scottish dialect into literature that pulses with humor, desire, anger, and tenderness. This comprehensive collection gathers his poems, songs, and letters: the complete arc of a genius who died at 37 yet shaped a nation's identity forever. From "To a Mouse" (the fieldmouse whose nest he plowed) to "Tam o' Shanter" (a drunken farmer's midnight ride through hell), from the tender "My Love is like a Red Red Rose" to the defiant "Scots Wha Hae" (which became an anthem of resistance), Burns inhabited every register of human feeling. His love songs ache. His satires bite. His political verses still spark. Allan Cunningham's critical apparatus illuminates the cultural landscape that produced this bard: a man born into miserable rustic poverty who dazzled Edinburgh's literati and became the darling of every class. For anyone who wants to understand what Scotland believes about itself, or who simply wants to hear language burn with life, this is the book.
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“O, wad some Power the giftie gie usTo see oursels as others see us!It wad frae monie a blunder free us,An' foolish notion.””
— Robert Burns
“The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.””
— Robert Burns
“There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.””
— Robert Burns
“Had we never lov'd sae kindly,Had we never lov'd sae blindly,Never met -- or never parted --we had ne'er been broken-hearted””
— Robert Burns
“The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley.An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy!””
— Robert Burns
“But deep this truth impress'd my mind: Thro' all His works abroad,The heart benevolent and kindThe most resembles God.””
— Robert Burns
“The best-laid schemes o' mice an' menGang aft agley,An' lea'e us naught but grief an' painFor promised joy!Still thou art blest, compared wi' me!The present only toucheth thee:””
— Robert Burns
“I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration””
— Robert Burns
“We will drain our dearest veins,But they shall be free.””
— Robert Burns
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