Selected Poems Robert Burns Penguin Classics

This selection gives equal weight to the two aspects of Robert Burns\'s reputation, as a lyricist and as a much-loved Scottish poet. Placing works in probable order of composition, it includes lyrics to his most well known songs, such as the nostalgic Auld Lang Syne, the romantic A Red, Red Rose, and the patriotic Scots What Hae. As a poet, Burns wrote with deceptive simplicity and imaginative sympathy, and demonstrated enormous range - from comic dramatic monologues such as Holy Willie\'s Prayer, which mocks hypocrisy, to narratives including the celebrated Tam O\' Shanter, about the ghostly visions of a drunk. Σελίδες: 368, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm