The Best Laid Schemes: Selected Poetry and Prose of Robert Burns - Brossura

Maclachlan, Christopher

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1846970946 ISBN 13: 9781846970948

Casa editrice: Birlinn Ltd, 2008

Riassunto

Newly edited from early printed texts and from manuscripts, "The Best Laid Schemes" is the only substantial selection of Burns' work in print which has line-by-line glossing of the Scots words. Burns himself added a concluding general glossary to his book, but many modern readers will prefer simply to run their eye along the line for a gloss, rather than having to ferret around at the back of the volume. As well as containing outstanding examples of Burns' prose, this selection also includes some rediscovered verse, printed from manuscript and available in no other editions. Burns' best-loved poems are here along with a full selection of the work which shows his sheer mastery of form, his political interests, his enthusiasms and loves. This book aims to help readers attend sympathetically to a masterfully constructed, remarkable, and freshly accessible poetic voice.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Robert Crawford is Professor of Modern Scottish Literature at St Andrews University, where his teaching interests include Scottish Literature, Modern and Contemporary Poetry, T. S. Eliot, and Creative Writing. He has taught there since 1989 having previously worked at the universities of Oxford and Glasgow. An acclaimed and award-winning poet in both English and Scots (Sharawaggi, Polygon 1990), Robert is also a highly respected poetry editor. With Simon Armitage he edited The Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland since 1945 (1998) and with Mick Imlah The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse (2000). As the sole editor his work includes New Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Polygon, 2008), Heaven-Taught Fergusson (Tuckwell, 2003), The Book of St Andrews (Polygon, 2005) and Apollos of the North (Polygon, 2006). Robert is a founding editor of the magazine Verse and has served as a judge for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the National Poetry Competition, amongst others. Christopher MacLachlan is his colleague from the School of English at St Andrews.

Product Description:

Appena modificato da testi stampati in anticipo e da manoscritti, "The Best Laid Schemes" è l'unica selezione sostanziale del lavoro Burns' in stampa che ha glosse linea per linea delle parole scozzesi. Brucia se stesso ha aggiunto un glossario generale concludendo al suo libro, ma molti lettori moderni preferiscono semplicemente per eseguire il loro occhio lungo la linea per un gloss, piuttosto che dover scovare in giro sul retro del volume. Oltre a contenere notevoli esempi di prosa Burns', questa selezione include anche alcuni versi ritrovata, stampata dal manoscritto e disponibile in nessun altro edizioni. Burns' poesie più amate sono qui insieme a una selezione completa del lavoro che mostra la sua assoluta padronanza della forma, i suoi interessi politici, i suoi entusiasmi e ama. Questo libro si propone di aiutare i lettori a partecipare con simpatia ad un magistralmente costruito, notevole, e appena accessibili voce poetica.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Birlinn Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1846970946
• ISBN 13: 9781846970948
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352
• Redattore: Crawford Robert