Robert Burns: The Critical HeritageDonald A. Low The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. |
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... described as 'mobility'.8 Success in Edinburgh, 1786-87, and some of its consequences Beginning as a local poet who wrote to please himself and others in his neighbourhood, Burns was by merit and chance thrust into wider fame. The ...
... described as 'mobility'.8 Success in Edinburgh, 1786-87, and some of its consequences Beginning as a local poet who wrote to please himself and others in his neighbourhood, Burns was by merit and chance thrust into wider fame. The ...
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... described in the poem. Similar tributes were paid by many critics and readers. Here, the difference in taste from the twentieth century is marked. (Recently, critics have found 'an artificial pose' and 'entirely unnecessary comment' in ...
... described in the poem. Similar tributes were paid by many critics and readers. Here, the difference in taste from the twentieth century is marked. (Recently, critics have found 'an artificial pose' and 'entirely unnecessary comment' in ...
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... described as 'a coarse edition ... published at Dumfries'. In writing the passages which did most damage to the poet's reputation, he distorted the evidence of letters he had received from Burns only weeks before: Probably he was not ...
... described as 'a coarse edition ... published at Dumfries'. In writing the passages which did most damage to the poet's reputation, he distorted the evidence of letters he had received from Burns only weeks before: Probably he was not ...
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... described him as 'the child of nature, the child of sensibility'. Hers was a brave defence, offering a portrait of the man which was closer in spirit to his writings than that of any other contemporary. She compared him with Sterne ...
... described him as 'the child of nature, the child of sensibility'. Hers was a brave defence, offering a portrait of the man which was closer in spirit to his writings than that of any other contemporary. She compared him with Sterne ...
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... described as 'the effusions of his sensibility'. He was consistent in arguing this case, but gained the emphasis he sought at the cost of overlooking other merits: If fiction be, as some suppose, the soul of poetry, no one had ever less ...
... described as 'the effusions of his sensibility'. He was consistent in arguing this case, but gained the emphasis he sought at the cost of overlooking other merits: If fiction be, as some suppose, the soul of poetry, no one had ever less ...
Contents
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NOTE ON THE TEXT | 59 |
Poems chiefly in the Scottish Dialect Kilmarnock 1786 | 61 |
Poems chiefly in the Scottish Dialect Edinburgh 1787 | 86 |
R H Cromek Reliques of Robert Burns 1808 | 178 |
The publication of Burnss poems and songs 17861800 | 437 |
Burns in America a late nineteenthcentury view | 439 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 441 |
SELECT INDEX | 443 |
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