
A Burns Companion
Alan Bold(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 12. December 1990
Book
Hardback
XIV, 447 pages
978-0-333-42270-0 (ISBN)
Description
This Companion, designed as an authoritative biographical and critical guide to Burns, is in six sections. Part I places Burns in context with a Chronology, 'The Burns Circle' and a Topography. Part II looks at the Burnsian issues of religion, politics, philosophy, drink, drama and sex. Part III an essay on Burns as a poetic phenomenon, is sure to provoke debate about the relevance of Burns to his time and ours. Part IV examines twenty-five poems, eighteen verse epistles and twenty-six songs as well as commenting on the letters, political ballads and Common Place Books. A Select Bibliography (Part V) and four Appendixes (Part VI) are followed by a glossary of Scots words, and index of poems and a general index.
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Series
Edition
1991 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
XIV, 447 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
762 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-42270-0 (9780333422700)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-21165-4
Schweitzer Classification
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Content
Burns in context; aspects as Burns; an approach to Burns; the art of Burns; appendices A-D