Robert Burns and pastoral [electronic resource] : poetry and improvement in late eighteenth-century Scotland /
by Leask, Nigel.
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BookPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 347 p.) : ill., map, ports.ISBN: 9780191722974 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 -- Criticism and interpretation | Pastoral poetry, English -- 18th century -- History and criticism | Agriculture in literature | Rural conditions in literature | Enlightenment -- ScotlandOnline resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: 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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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.
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