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The Best Laid Schemes: Selected Poetry and Prose of Robert Burns
Ort / Verlag
Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
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Beschreibungen/Notizen
The definitive selection of Robert Burns's best poetry
and prose, including some newly discovered verses 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 greatest poetry more accessible to American readers than
ever before. This is the only comprehensive selection of his work
that has discreet line-by-line marginal glossing of the Scots,
archaic, and obscure words, allowing readers to understand and
enjoy the poems without constantly having to turn to footnotes or a
glossary. Newly edited from manuscripts and early printed texts,
this definitive, wide-ranging collection also introduces some
recently discovered verses-and it is the only edition to present a
substantial selection of Burns's important prose writings,
including letters and key statements about his art. Edited and
annotated by acclaimed Burns biographer Robert Crawford and textual
expert Christopher MacLachlan, the book also includes a substantial
introduction that puts the poet in biographical, historical, and
cultural context. The Best Laid Schemes demonstrates like
no other collection why Burns is considered one of the world's
greatest poets of love and democracy-and why he continues to
entertain, move, and intrigue readers two and a half centuries
after his birth.