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
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780191591457
Subjects: English Pastoral poetry; Agriculture in literature; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; POETRY; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Agriculture; History
Description: This text restores the long marginalised Scottish poet Robert Burns to his rightful place as a major poet of the 18th century & 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, & influence on Wordsworth and Coleridge.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Robert Burns and the 'new husbandry'; title: Scots pastoral; title: The making of a poet; title: Pastoral politics; title: Beasties; title: Hellfire and common sense; title: The annals of the poor; title: The Deil and the Exciseman; title: Across the shadow line : Robert Burns and British Romanticism.