Auld Reikie - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Auld Reikie write by Robert Fergusson. This book was released on 1773. Auld Reikie available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Auld Reekie
Auld Reekie - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Auld Reekie write by Ralph Lownie. This book was released on 2004. Auld Reekie available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this widely-praised anthology Ralph Lownie draws on a wide range of sources, including speeches, memoirs, letters, poems, novels and journals, to capture the physicality and spirit of Scotlands capital.
Auld Reikie
Auld Reikie - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Auld Reikie write by Robert Fergusson. This book was released on 1773. Auld Reikie available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Bard
The Bard - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Bard write by Robert Crawford. This book was released on 2009-01-18. The Bard available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. No writer is more charismatic than Robert Burns. Wonderfully readable, The Bard catches Burns's energy, brilliance, and radicalism as never before. To his international admirers he was a genius, a hero, a warm-hearted friend; yet to the mother of one of his lovers he was a wastrel, to a fellow poet he was "sprung . . . from raking of dung," and to his political enemies a "traitor." Drawing on a surprising number of untapped sources--from rediscovered poetry by Burns to manuscript journals, correspondence, and oratory by his contemporaries--this new biography presents the remarkable life, loves, and struggles of the great poet. Inspired by the American and French Revolutions and molded by the Scottish Enlightenment, Burns was in several senses the first of the major Romantics. With a poet's insight and a shrewd sense of human drama, Robert Crawford outlines how Burns combined a childhood steeped in the peasant song-culture of rural Scotland with a consummate linguistic artistry to become not only the world's most popular love poet but also the controversial master poet of modern democracy. Written with accessible elan and nuanced attention to Burns's poems and letters, The Bard is the story of an extraordinary man fighting to maintain a sly sense of integrity in the face of overwhelming pressures. This incisive biography startlingly demonstrates why the life and work of Scotland's greatest poet still compel the attention of the world a quarter of a millennium after his birth.
Scotland's Books
Scotland's Books - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scotland's Books write by Robert Crawford. This book was released on 2009-01-30. Scotland's Books available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From Treasure Island to Trainspotting, Scotland's rich literary tradition has influenced writing across centuries and cultures far beyond its borders. Here, for the first time, is a single volume presenting the glories of fifteen centuries of Scottish literature. In Scotland's Books the much loved poet Robert Crawford tells the story of Scottish imaginative writing and its relationship to the country's history. Stretching from the medieval masterpieces of St. Columba's Iona - the earliest surviving Scottish work - to the energetic world of twenty-first-century writing by authors such as Ali Smith and James Kelman, this outstanding account traces the development of literature in Scotland and explores the cultural, linguistic and literary heritage of the nation. It includes extracts from the writing discussed to give a flavor of the original work, and its new research ranges from specially made translations of ancient poems to previously unpublished material from the Scottish Enlightenment and interviews with living writers. Informative and readable, this is the definitive single-volume guide to the marvelous legacy of Scottish literature.
