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The Beloved Scot
The essential book on Scotlands most famous and favouritre son in large and easy to read print. ... Read more

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Covered with red and green tartan cloth. Title in silver. ... Read more

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The Letters of Robert Burns is a complete revision of the earlier text established by J. De Lancey Ferguson.A number of new letters have been added and completed from manuscripts that have come to light since the Ferguson edition-there are letters to twenty-five new correspondents-and
footnotes have been expanded to indicate the source of all Burns's quotations where these can be identified. The endnotes have been expanded to indicate letters to which Burns'sare answers as well as answers received by Burns to the letters he sent.An appendix contains Currie's List of Letters
to Burns, a document of major importance as it represents a selection of letters that were in the poet's possession at the time of his death. ... Read more

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"Should auld acquaintance be forgot And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And auld lang syne!"The name of Robert Burns is celebrated by millions throughout the world, yet appreciation of his poetry is often limited and distorted.This volume shows him not only as the `ploughman poet' of popular legend but as a sophisticated literary artist drawing on the resources of two languages.Extracts from Henryson, Milton, Pope, Fergusson and others help place Burns in the traditions of English and Scottish literature.Cambridge Literature is a series of study texts which presents writing in the English-speaking world from the 16th century up to the present day.The series includes novels, drama, short stories, poetry, essays and other types of non-fiction.Each edition has the complete text with an appropriate glossary.The student will find in each volume a helpful introduction and a full section of resource notes encouraging active and imaginative study methods. ... Read more

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A Collector's Poetry Book
Sure, most Robert Burns poems are on the `Net.Sure, we can look them up, print them out, and then recycle them.But what if you are at home, with no computer on, or in the park, or in a bus or train or plane? This is a smooth, slim, handsome volume, with a purple picture of a thistle on the cover and a ribbon placeholder inside.This is a book of poems for the ages--familiar, resonant, humorous, and ready.

Man I love this Cat!!!!!!!!
This is the best volume you'll find of the poetry of the great Bobby Burns (1759-1796). What's so great about this guy is that his poetry is never really sad or whiny like, well just about everybody else, but his poetry is really happy and merry; just a song you sing while drinking scotch. Another thing is that Burns is just the voice of Scotland. His poems in the Scottish dialect are nothing short of delightful like one of my favorites of his, A Red, Red Rose
Oh my luve is like a red, red rose ,
That's newly sprung in June
Oh my luve is like a melodie
That's sweetly played in tune
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I,
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a' the seas gang dry.
Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi' the sun!
And I will love thee still, my dear,
While the sands o' life shall run.
And fare thee weel, my only luve,
And fare thee weel awile!
And I will come again, my luve,
Though it were ten thousand mile!

Scotland's lyric genius
Burns is a legendary lyric poet whose Scots verses inspired Wordsworth and Coleridge. A number of his poems and songs, "Auld Lang Syne" " To a Mousie" "Tam O'Shanter" " A man's a man for a that" are among the most well- known in the language.
Burns bright star burned briefly, and his life was filled with passionate and romantic loves about which he wrote some of his greatest poems. " My love is like a red red rose" is perhaps the most well-known of these.
In brief lines he expressed a great range of feeling, from satirical to humorous to tender and loving.
Here are the concluding verses of one of his signature poems, "To a Mousie"
But Mousie, thou art no thy lane,
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best-laid schemes o mice an men
Gang aft agley,
An lea'e us nought but grief an pain,
For promis'd joy!

Still thou art blest, compar'd wi me!
The present only toucheth thee:
But och! I backward cast my e'e,
On prospects drear!
An forward, tho I canna see,
I guess an fear!

Burns Is Still On Fire
Robert Burns was and still is the greatest Scottish poet to ever live. This book takes you deep inside the mind of the Scots and makes you feellike one yourself.A perfect selection of literature, it is sure to beamong your favorite bedside books. Buy it!!! ... Read more