Robert Burns and pastoral
Subtitle: poetry and improvement in late eighteenth-century Scotland
By: Nigel Leask
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780199572618
Subjects: English Pastoral poetry; Agriculture in literature; Agriculture; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; History
Description: This text restores the long marginalised Scottish poet Robert Burns to his rightful place as a major poet of the 18th century and Romantic period. It discusses his education as a farmer during the revolutionary period of 'improvement' in 18th-century Scotland, decision to write 'Scots pastoral' poetry, and influence on Wordsworth and Coleridge.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [311] -328) and index.