Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect |
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Author:
| Burns, Robert |
Introduction by:
| Wordsworth, Jonathan |
ISBN: | 978-1-85477-060-8 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2003 |
Publisher: | Woodstock Books
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $55.00 |
Book Description:
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"612 copies were printed of Burns's first book--the so-called Kilmarnock edition--and they sold out within a month. Some reviewers tut-tutted, but there was general recognition that here was 'a striking example of native genius bursting through the obscurity of poverty and obstructions of laborious life' (Edinburgh review). A claim can be made for the book as the first work of English Romantic literature. It had a deep influence upon the young Wordsworth--in his introduction to this...
More Description"612 copies were printed of Burns's first book--the so-called Kilmarnock edition--and they sold out within a month. Some reviewers tut-tutted, but there was general recognition that here was 'a striking example of native genius bursting through the obscurity of poverty and obstructions of laborious life' (Edinburgh review). A claim can be made for the book as the first work of English Romantic literature. It had a deep influence upon the young Wordsworth--in his introduction to this facsimile reprint Jonathan Wordsworth traces the threads of this influence--and it provided a lasting corrective to the formal diction of eighteenth-century poetry. It is also a singularly handsome book in its typography. To read 'To a mouse' in this edition is almost like reading it for the first time."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved