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The Best Laid Schemes : Selected Poetry and Prose of Robert Burns /
"There are more statues of Robert Burns in the United States than there are of any American poet. Scotland's favorite poet has been loved by generations of Americans--from Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman to Robert Frost, Maya Angelou, and Bob Dylan. Now this book makes Burns's greate...
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Poems. My father was a farmer
- To ruin
- The death and dying words of poor Mailie, the author's own pet yowe, an unco mornfu' tale
- Poor Mailie's elegy
- Mary Morison
- On a noisy polemic
- For the author's father
- A fragment [When Guilford Good our pilot stood]
- Address to the Unco Guid, or the rigidly righteous
- O leave novels
- Green grow the rashes : a fragment
- Epistle to Davie, a brother poet
- Holy Willie's prayer
- Death and Doctor Hornbook : a true story
- Epistle to J. L[aprai]k, an old Scotch bard
- The vision
- To a mouse
- The holy fair
- The twa dogs, a tale
- The Cotter's Saturday night
- Address to the Deil
- Brose and butter
- To a louse
- A cantata [Love and liberty or The jolly beggars]
- On a Scotch bard gone to the West Indies
- To the author [Second epistle to Davie]
- [Lines written on a Bank of Scotland one guinea note]
- [Address to Beelzebub]
- A dream
- The brigs of Ayr : a poem
- The northern lass
- Address to Edinburgh
- To a haggis
- A fragment [There was a lad]
- [Inscribed around Fergusson's portrait]
- [Lines on Fergusson]
- Written by somebody on the window of an inn at Stirling on seeing the royal palace in ruins
- Ca' the ewes to the Knowes [first version]
- I love my Jean
- O, were I on Parnassus Hill
- Tam Glen
- Auld Lang Syne
- Louis what reck I by thee
- Robin Shure in Hairst
- Nine inch will please a lady
- Afton water
- [Epistle to Dr. Blacklock]
- On Captn. Grose's present peregrinations through Scotland collecting the antiquities of that kingdom
- My love she's but a lassie yet
- My heart's in the highlands
- John Anderson my Jo
- Tam o'Shanter : a tale
- The banks o'Doon
- Ae fond kiss
- Such a parcel of rogues in a nation
- The de'el's awa wi' th' exciseman
- Highland Mary
- The rights of woman
- Why should na poor people mow
- Whistle & I'll come to you my lad
- Ode [for General Washington's birthday]
- Bruce to his troops on the eve of the Battle of Bannock-burn
- Act sederunt o' the court o' session
- A red red rose
- Ca' the yowes to the Knowes [second version]
- For a' that & a' that
- The Dumfries volunteers
- The heron ballads I
- To the tooth-ach
- [Oh wert though in the cauld blast]
- The solemn league and covenant
- The Selkirk grace
- Tam Lin
- Comin thro' the rye
- Charlie he's my darling
- The trogger
- The tree of liberty
- Rediscovered poems. Logie o' Buchan
- I courted a lassie
- My steps fate on a mad conjuncture thrust
- Here is to the king, sir
- Tho' life's gay scenes delight no more
- Prose. Five extracts from Burns's First commonplace book, 1783-85
- Preface [To Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect, 1786]
- Dedication [To Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect, 1787]
- Extract from Burns's journal of his border tour
- Letter to Dr. John Moore, 2 August 1787
- Letter to Agnes McLehose, 19 January 1788
- Letter to Agnes McLehose, 25 January 1788
- Letter to Robert Ainslie, 3 March 1788
- Extract from a letter to Burns from Agnes McLehose
- Letter to Dr. John Moore, 4 January 1789
- Extracts from a letter to Mrs. Frances Dunlop of Dunlop, 12 January 1795
- Letter to James Armour, 10 July 1796.