Robert Burns
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Burns' epic and eerie tale of Tam, a drunken farmer, who on his way home through a storm, stumbles across a coven of witches and warlocks dancing with the Devil in the dark of the night. After he calls to one of the witches, Tam and his trusty horse, Meg, end up racing for their lives... By multi-award winning, immersive audio company Almost Tangible - listen on headphones for the best experience!
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
The farmer's boy from Ayrshire who went on to be the most acclaimed of all Scottish poets, celebrated around the world, Robert Burns is a greater and more varied artist than those that know him only through annual Burns' Suppers and choruses of his 'Auld Lang Syne' at New Year could imagine.
This new selection by Ian Rankin of verses and lyrics from Scotland's national poet, the 'Heaven-taught ploughman', reveals a writer capable of evoking
Author
Publisher
Canongate Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Scottish poet Robert Burns has been idolised and eulogised. He has been sainted, painted, tarted-up and toasted. He is famous as the author of 'Auld Lang Syne', and he has long been the patron saint of the heartsore and the hungover. But what about the poems? Beneath the cult of Burns Nights and patriotic yawps, there is the work itself, among the purest and most truthful created in any age. This is a Burns collection like no other, introduced,...
Author
Series
Harvard classics volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Poems and Songs of Robert Burns Robert Burns - Robert Burns (1759 – 1796) called himself "an Aeolian harp strung to every wind of heaven." His first volume of poems, entitled Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, was published in 1786. An immediate success, it established Burns's poetic reputation, which has grown over two centuries to the point where he is not only the Scottish national poet but the object of a cult unique in British poetry.
The...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Treasury of 43 works including: "The Cotter's Saturday Night," "To a Mountain Daisy," "To a Mouse," "To a Louse," "Tam o' Shanter," "Comin' Thro' the Rye," "I'm Oe'r Young to Marry Yet," "O, Lay Thy Loof in Mine, Lass," and "O, Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast." Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines. Extensive glossary.
9) Robert Burns
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Language
English
Description
Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns (1759-1796), with works such as A Red, Red Rose; A Man's a Man for A' That; and the ubiquitous Auld Lang Syne.
Author
Series
Library of literature volume 9
Publisher
Bobbs-Merrill Co
Pub. Date
[1967]
Language
English
20) Burns: poems
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
