Burns Centenary 21st July 1896

Author : Archibald Primrose
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365369455
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (694 download)

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Download or read book Robert Burns written by Archibald Primrose and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Robert Burns: Two Addresses Delivered at Dumfries and Glasgow on the Centenary of the Poet's Death, 21st July, 1896 Now, ladies and gentlemen, there seem to metobetwogreatnaturalforcesinba-itish literature. I use the safe ad'ective of British, and your applause shows me I was right to do so. I use it partly because hardly any of Burns's poetry is strictly English; because he hated, and was perhaps the first to protest against, the use of the word English as including Scottish. Well, I say, there are in that literature two great forces of which the power seems sheer inspiration and nothing else - I mean Shakespeare and Burns. This 13 not the place or the time to speak of that miracle called Shakespeare, but one must say a word of the miracle called Burns. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.