Scottish Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
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Editor: Gerard CarruthersEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-01-06
ISBN: 030726971X
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Everyman's Library
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Book Review: The Classics in an Adorable Binding
Summary: 5 Stars
Some books will simply make you smile: perhaps because they cover a topic close to your heart or simply because of the quality of work within the front and back covers. //Scottish Poems// is one of those books. Petite in height, but rich in linguistic history, this is a gem for the fan of poetry and literature. Perhaps the most famous Scottish poet, Robert Burns, is featured in this mini-anthology, alongside many lesser-known, but very talented poets. It was so easy to get into every selection, and any reader will find themselves reading with a Scottish accent.
There are 239 pages of beautiful Scottish prose within this beautifully bound edition, followed by a glossary of unfamiliar terms and other references. The cover is a hauntingly beautiful landscape, and there is even a ribbon marker, to keep your place... in style!
Reviewed by Susie Kopecky
Summary of Scottish Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
In time for Burns Night (the annual celebration of Scottish culture that takes place on January 25, the birthday of Robert Burns)?a sweeping literary tour of Scotland from the Middle Ages to the present, the only single-volume collection of Scottish poetry currently available.Scottish poetry has a long and distinguished history in three languages?English, Scots, and Gaelic?and all are well represented here. The most renowned and beloved poets?Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Hugh MacDiarmid, and Muriel Spark among them?mingle with their lesser-known but equally distinctive compatriots, including many of those who have emerged from the recent Scottish poetry renaissance. The poems are organized by theme: from matters of the heart to subjects spiritual and philosophical to the poetry of place. All of the verse is marked by a characteristic energy, wit, satire, and passionate lyrical intensity, and all demonstrates the power of art that proudly emanates from, but is never limited by, the place of its birth.
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