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.

A Burns Companion

Literature & Fiction

Alan Bold

British & Irish

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Robert Burns (Pride of Britain)

Pitkin Pictorials

Scottish Clans (Pitkin Guides)

Reference

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Beggar's Benison of Anstruther

Paul Harris Publishing

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The Edge of the Wood (The Blew Blanket Library)

Short Stories & Anthologies

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Scotland's Kings and Queens

History

Europe

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