Burns and Other Poets
Will be published approx. on 30. November 2011
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-7486-4357-8 (ISBN)
Description
New essays on Burns' special place in Scottish, English and Irish literary culture
In this volume, 17 leading Burns scholars, poetry critics and practising poets reflect on the enduring significance of one of the most important poets of the 18th century. They show that Burns was a highly innovative and technically accomplished poet, as capable of transforming earlier traditions as of launching new literary trends.Looks at Burns' place amongst his literary predecessors, contemporaries and heirs, including: Scottish poets such as Ramsay, Fergusson, Byron, Hogg, MacDiarmid, Paterson, Dunn & Mackay Brown; English poets such as Milton, Addison, Gray & Wordsworth; Classical writers such as Virgil; and Irish poets such as Merriman, Goldsmith, Dermody & Heaney.
By looking at Burns in the context of other poets, each chapter sheds new lighton his own practices and the practice of poetry in general. They investigate the political, national, philosophical and ethical aspects of his poetry, showing how you can deepen your close readings with historical awareness.
Key Features
* Contributors include leading poet-critics such as award-winning Burns author Robert Crawford & Douglas Dunn, and experts in poetry criticism such as Stephen Gill & Patrick Crotty
* Includes two exclusive new poems written for the volume by Bernard O'Donoghue and Andrew McNeillie
* Creative-critical discussions will generate new dialogues in Romanticism, Archipelagic Studies and Scottish, English and Irish literature
In this volume, 17 leading Burns scholars, poetry critics and practising poets reflect on the enduring significance of one of the most important poets of the 18th century. They show that Burns was a highly innovative and technically accomplished poet, as capable of transforming earlier traditions as of launching new literary trends.Looks at Burns' place amongst his literary predecessors, contemporaries and heirs, including: Scottish poets such as Ramsay, Fergusson, Byron, Hogg, MacDiarmid, Paterson, Dunn & Mackay Brown; English poets such as Milton, Addison, Gray & Wordsworth; Classical writers such as Virgil; and Irish poets such as Merriman, Goldsmith, Dermody & Heaney.
By looking at Burns in the context of other poets, each chapter sheds new lighton his own practices and the practice of poetry in general. They investigate the political, national, philosophical and ethical aspects of his poetry, showing how you can deepen your close readings with historical awareness.
Key Features
* Contributors include leading poet-critics such as award-winning Burns author Robert Crawford & Douglas Dunn, and experts in poetry criticism such as Stephen Gill & Patrick Crotty
* Includes two exclusive new poems written for the volume by Bernard O'Donoghue and Andrew McNeillie
* Creative-critical discussions will generate new dialogues in Romanticism, Archipelagic Studies and Scottish, English and Irish literature
Reviews / Votes
Burns and Other Poets provides much valuable debate on key topics and concepts in the field, demonstrating the continuing international relevance of Burns in the present day. -- Corey E. Andrews, Youngstown State University * Scottish Literary Review Vol 4, No 2 * The range of essays in Burns and Other Poets show how the unexhausted topic of the Bard's literary persona provides ever fresh scope for consideration and new interpretations. * The BARS Review *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7486-4357-8 (9780748643578)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
David Sergeant is Lecturer in English post-1850 at Plymouth University. Fiona Stafford is Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford. She has published widely on Romantic literature, Scottish and Irish literature and poetic dialogues. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Robert Burns Centre in Glasgow. Her books include Local Attachments (OUP, 2010); Brief Lives: Jane Austen (Hesperus, 2008); Starting Lines in Scottish, Irish and English Poetry, from Burns to Heaney (OUP, 2000); The Last of the Race (OUP, 1994); The Sublime Savage: James Macpherson and the Poems of Ossian (EUP, 1988).
Content
Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 'The Devil's Elbow', Andrew McNeillie; 1. Introduction: Burns and the Performance of Form, David Sergeant; 2. Burns and Loyalty, Douglas Dunn; 3. Allan Ramsay, Robert Fergusson and Robert Burns, Rhona Brown; 4. Robert Burns's Scots Poetry Contemporaries, Gerard Carruthers; 5. 'To a Mouse': Burns, Power and Equality, Freya Johnston; 6. Burns's Sentiments: Gray, Milton and 'To A Mountain-Daisy', Mina Gorji; 7. House and Home in Burns's Poems, Claire Lamont; 8. 'The Real Language of Men': Fa's Speerin? Burns and the Scottish Romantic Vernacular, Murray Pittock; 9. 'Merry Ha'e We Been': The Midnight Visions of Brian Merriman and Robert Burns, Patrick Crotty; 10. Arcades Ambo: Robert Burns and Thomas Dermody, Michael Griffin; 11. 'Simple Bards, unbroke by rules of Art': The Poetic Self-Fashioning of Burns and Hogg, Meiko O'Halloran; 12. Wordsworth and Burns, Stephen Gill; 13. The 'Ethical Turn' in Literary Criticism: Burns and Byron, Brean Hammond; 14. MacDiarmid, Burnsians, and Burns's Legacy, Robert Crawford; 14. Ireland's National Bard, Bernard O'Donoghue; 15. The Collapse of Distance: Heaney's Burns and the 1990s, Fiona Stafford; 'The Old Second Division', Bernard O'Donoghue; Notes on Contributors; Index.