Select Poems of Robert Burns

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Excerpt from Select Poems of Robert Burns: Arranged in Chronological Order, With Introduction, Notes, and a GlossaryThe Muse of Coila early introduced into her mysteries the most wayward and most loving, the most passionate and most penitent, of this various and richly endowed family, and finally she crowned him laureate Of her native land.Wear thou this, ' she solemn said, And bound the holly round his head.That Robbie Burns is the idol of Scotland few who have had the privilege of knowing the Scotch people will venture to gainsay, and hence it is worth our while to study the forces at work in Scottish life and literature which contributed to the fashioning of such a character.On Aug. 18, 1803, the day after Wordsworth and his sister had visited the grave of Burns in the churchyard of Dumfries, they were wandering on the banks of the Nith, and reviewing the life and work of the Ploughman Poet, when they gave utterance to the most distinctly human note in literary criticism that had hitherto been heard. It was a prophecy of what the method and the function of criticism in the nineteenth century were to be.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.