Burns and Other Poets

David Sergeant; Fiona Stafford

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2011

Burns and Other Poets

David Sergeant and Fiona Stafford

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748643585

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About this book

New essays on Burns' special place in Scottish, English and Irish literary culture

In this volume, 17 leading Burns scholars, poetry critics and practising poets reflect on the enduring significance of one of the most important poets of the 18th century. They show that Burns was a highly innovative and technically accomplished poet, as capable of transforming earlier traditions as of launching new literary trends.

Looks at Burns’ place amongst his literary predecessors, contemporaries and heirs, including:

Scottish poets such as Ramsay, Fergusson, Byron, Hogg, MacDiarmid, Paterson, Dunn & Mackay Brown
English poets such as Milton, Addison, Gray & Wordsworth
Classical writers such as Virgil
Irish poets such as Merriman, Goldsmith, Dermody & Heaney

By looking at Burns in the context of other poets, each chapter sheds new lighton his own practices and the practice of poetry in general. They investigate the political, national, philosophical and ethical aspects of his poetry, showing how you can deepen your close readings with historical awareness.

Key Features:

Contributors include leading poet-critics such as award-winning Burns author Robert Crawford & Douglas Dunn, and experts in poetry criticism such as Stephen Gill & Patrick Crotty
Includes two exclusive new poems written for the volume by Bernard O'Donoghue and Andrew McNeillie
Creative-critical discussions will generate new dialogues in Romanticism, Archipelagic Studies and Scottish, English & Irish literary studies

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
The Devil’s Elbow Andrew McNeillie Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
1. Introduction: Burns and the Performance of Form David Sergeant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Burns and Loyalty Douglas Dunn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
3. Allan Ramsay, Robert Fergusson and Robert Burns Rhona Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
4. Robert Burns’s Scots Poetry Contemporaries Gerard Carruthers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
5. ‘To a Mouse’: Burns, Power and Equality Freya Johnston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
6. Burns’s Sentiments: Gray, Milton and ‘To A Mountain-Daisy’ Mina Gorji Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
7. House and Home in Burns’s Poems Claire Lamont Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
8. ‘The Real Language of Men’: Fa’s Speerin? Burns and the Scottish Romantic Vernacular Murray Pittock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
9. ‘Merry Ha’e We Been’: The Midnight Visions of Brian Merriman and Robert Burns Patrick Crotty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
10. Arcades Ambo: Robert Burns and Thomas Dermody Michael Griffin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
11. ‘Simple Bards, unbroke by rules of Art’: The Poetic Self- Fashioning of Burns and Hogg Meiko O’Halloran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
12. Wordsworth and Burns Stephen Gill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
13. The ‘Ethical Turn’ in Literary Criticism: Burns and Byron Brean Hammond Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
14. MacDiarmid, Burnsians, and Burns’s Legacy Robert Crawford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
15. Ireland’s National Bard Bernard O’Donoghue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
16. The Collapse of Distance: Heaney’s Burns and the 1990s Fiona Stafford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
‘The Old Second Division’ Bernard O’Donoghue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	220
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 240
Keywords: Literary Studies

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Published: November 30, 2011
ISBN: 9780748643585