Robert Burns and pastoral [electronic resource] : poetry and improvement in late eighteenth-century Scotland / Nigel Leask.

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.