Selected Poems and Songs

by Robert Burns and Robert P. Irvine

Book Overview

'The Poetic Genius of my Country...bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my natal Soil, in my native tongue.'

Many of the poems and songs of Robert Burns (1759-96) are familiar to readers the world over: lyrical, acerbic, comic, bawdy, democratic. They include 'To a Mouse', 'John Anderson my Jo', 'A red red Rose', 'Auld lang syne', 'Tam o 'Shanter' and many more, whose vernacular energy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199682321
• ISBN13: 9780199682324
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.6"