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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.
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Burns in Context
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An Approach to Burns
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The Art of Burns
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Burns Companion
Authors: Alan Bold
Series Title: Literary Companions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21165-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1991
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-42270-0Published: 12 December 1990
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-21165-4Published: 27 July 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 447
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Poetry and Poetics