into the Search box there for all artists, titles, descriptions or track listings with the words entered. Hint: Type "lang syne" or "peck maut" etc. Search our huge CD and music store for any Burns-related phrase! Linn Records have completed their landmark recording of all 368 Burns songs, available as individual CDs or a 12 volume presentation box set. Register with our Shopping Club for further offers and unique member offers. NEW!! View our exclusive range of distinctive Robert Burns related products. Please email the author directly, at Burns Store Introduction - Contents - Extracts - About the Author The Book Extracts section contains examples of Burns' shorter poems which illustrate the breadth of his perceptions.Ī list of all the work covered in the book can be found on the contents page. This volume makes Burns immediately accessible to the contemporary reader. I feel a real gap is being filled by publication of this work and I do hope it proves a blessing to a great many new followers of the poet" "He deserves all the esteem that application such as that of the author brings to his cause. My name-sake, Sir Samuel Curran, one time Principal and Vice Chancellor of Strathclyde University, kindly wrote a foreword to the book, stating amongst other things : Whether reworking an ancient story, describing the pleasures and pains of love, the inquities of a local laird or the hypocrisies of kirk and state, he does so with charm always succinct and a compassion never cruel. William Curran has done all Burns' admirers a great service by translating the best of his oeuvre into modern English while retaining the sense, rhythms and flavour of the original.Ĭurran's anthology makes it magnificently clear that Burns was more than the 'Heaven-taught Ploughman' of popular legend. It is easy to forget that he transformed a dialect of Scottish peasantry into high poetry and that he wrote two hundred years ago. But the most fervent admirer will admit that it is sometimes difficult to fathom exactly what the poet means. Burns' Night is cause for universal celebration.
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