Poems

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: Good
Publisher: Collins
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 1987
Edition: First Edition

Description: 736 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Good condition. There is some light shelf and reading wear and some light age marks to the inside page, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: The most essential of the immortal poems and songs of Scotlands beloved national bard are collected in this volume. With the publication of his first book of poems in 1786, Robert Burns-the twenty-seven-year-old son of a farmer-became a national celebrity, hailed as the "Ploughman Poet." When he died ten years later, ten thousand people came to pay their respects at his funeral, and in the two centuries since then he has inspired a cultlike following among Scots and poetry lovers around the world.A pioneer of the Romantic movement, Burns wrote in a light Scots dialect with brio, emotional directness, and wit, drawing on classical and English literary traditions as well as Scottish folklore-and leaving a timeless legacy. All of his most famous lyrics and poems are here, from "A Red, Red Rose," "To a Mouse," and "To a Louse" to "Tam oShanter," "Holy Willies Prayer," and "Auld Lang Syne."

ISBN: 0004202279