Robert Burns and pastoral [electronic resource] : poetry and improvement in late eighteenth-century Scotland / Nigel Leask.
Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 347 p.) : ill., map, portsISBN:- 9780191722974 (ebook) :
- 821.6 22
- PR4338
This text restores the long marginalised Scottish poet Robert Burns to his rightful place as a major poet of the 18th century & Romantic period. It discusses his education as a farmer during the revolutionary period of 'improvement' in 18th-century Scotland, decision to write 'Scots pastoral' poetry, & influence on Wordsworth and Coleridge.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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