Robert Burns and the United States of America

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319944452
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Robert Burns and the United States of America written by Arun Sood and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-23 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a critical study of the relationship between Robert Burns and the United States of America, c.1786-1866. Though Burns is commonly referred to as Scotland’s “National Poet”, his works were frequently reprinted in New York and Philadelphia; his verse mimicked by an emerging canon of American poets; and his songs appropriated by both abolitionists and Confederate soldiers during the Civil War era. Adopting a transnational, Atlantic Studies perspective that shifts emphasis from Burns as national poet to transnational icon, this book charts the reception, dissemination and cultural memory of Burns and his works in the United States up to 1866.

The Death of the American Trial

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226081281
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Book Synopsis The Death of the American Trial by : Robert P. Burns

Download or read book The Death of the American Trial written by Robert P. Burns and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Death of the American Trial, distinguished legal scholar Robert P. Burns makes an impassioned case for reversing the rapid decline of the trial before we lose one of our public culture’s greatest achievements. As a practice that is adapted for modern times yet rooted in ancient wisdom, the trial is uniquely suited to balance the tensions—between idealism and realism, experts and citizens, contextual judgment and reliance on rules—that define American culture. Arguing that many observers make a grave mistake by taking a complacent or even positive view of the trial’s demise, Burns concludes by laying out the catastrophic consequences of losing an institution that so perfectly embodies democratic governance.

Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317062299
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture written by Sharon Alker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While recent scholarship has usefully positioned Burns within the context of British Romanticism as a spokesperson of Scottish national identity, Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture considers Burns's impact in the United States, Canada, and South America, where he has served variously as a site of cultural memory and of creative negotiation. Ambitious in its scope, the volume is divided into five sections that explore: transatlantic concerns in Burns's own work, Burns's early publication in North America, Burns's reception in the Americas, Burns's creation as a site of cultural memory, and extra-literary remediations of Burns, including contemporary digital representations. By tracing the transatlantic modulations of the poet and songwriter and his works, Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture sheds new light on the circuits connecting Scotland and Britain with the evolving cultures of the Americas from the late eighteenth century to the present.

Robert Burns

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Publisher : Gramercy
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
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Download or read book Robert Burns written by Robert Burns and published by Gramercy. This book was released on 1999 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The works of Robert Burns; with an account of his life, and a criticism on his writings

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
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Download or read book The works of Robert Burns; with an account of his life, and a criticism on his writings written by Robert Burns and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Poems and Songs

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Poems and Songs written by Robert Burns and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns

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Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809386933
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns by : Ferenc Morton Szasz

Download or read book Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns written by Ferenc Morton Szasz and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today the images of Robert Burns and Abraham Lincoln are recognized worldwide, yet few are aware of the connection between the two. In Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns: Connected Lives and Legends, author Ferenc Morton Szasz reveals how famed Scots poet Robert Burns—and Scotland in general—influenced the life and thought of one of the most beloved and important U.S. presidents and how the legends of the two men became intertwined after their deaths. This is the first extensive work to link the influence, philosophy, and artistry of these two larger-than-life figures. Lacking a major national poet of their own in the early nineteenth century, Americans in the fledgling frontier country ardently adopted the poignant verses and songs of Scotland’s Robert Burns. Lincoln, too, was fascinated by Scotland’s favorite son and enthusiastically quoted the Scottish bard from his teenage years to the end of his life. Szasz explores the ways in which Burns’s portrayal of the foibles of human nature, his scorn for religious hypocrisy, his plea for nonjudgmental tolerance, and his commitment to social equality helped shape Lincoln’s own philosophy of life. The volume also traces how Burns’s lyrics helped Lincoln develop his own powerful sense of oratorical rhythm, from his casual anecdotal stories to his major state addresses. Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns connects the poor-farm-boy upbringings, the quasi-deistic religious views, the shared senses of destiny, the extraordinary gifts for words, and the quests for social equality of two respected and beloved world figures. This book is enhanced by twelve illustrations and two appendixes, which include Burns poems Lincoln particularly admired and Lincoln writings especially admired in Scotland.

Robert Burns in Global Culture

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Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1611480310
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Book Synopsis Robert Burns in Global Culture by : Murray Pittock

Download or read book Robert Burns in Global Culture written by Murray Pittock and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Burns in Global Culture is a collection which breaks new ground in treating Burns' poetry and influence in an international context. Widely recognized as poet of global significance in the nineteenth century, Burns' reputation has suffered from the critical turns in Romanticism since 1945 and is only now beginning to be seen in its proper context. Following on from the celebrations across the world to mark Burns' 250th anniversary in 2009, this collection asks questions concerning the nature of Burns' global influence in the United States, Europe and the Commonwealth, examines the extraordinary ways in which his writing combines a distinctively progressive agenda with deceptively traditional styles, and emplaces his reputation at the heart of questions of American exceptionalism, European democracy, British imperial identities, Italian politics, French literary history, questions of desire and sexuality, the Burns Supper and the extraordinary cult of Burns statues. 'Robert Burns in Global Culture' combines literary criticism, history, cultural theory and comparative literature to create a set of powerful, new and unique directions in the study of this major Romantic poet.

The Bard

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691141718
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (417 download)

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Book Synopsis The Bard by : Robert Crawford

Download or read book The Bard written by Robert Crawford and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-18 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Best Laid Schemes

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691142955
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Best Laid Schemes written by Robert Burns and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-26 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There are more statues of Robert Burns in the United States than there are of any American poet. Scotland's favorite poet has been loved by generations of Americans--from Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman to Robert Frost, Maya Angelou, and Bob Dylan. Now this book makes Burns's greatest poetry more accessible to American readers than ever before. Newly edited from manuscripts and early printed texts, this... collection also introduces some recently discovered verses. [It includes] a substantial selection of Burns's important prose writings, including letters and key statements about his art. Edited and annotated by acclaimed Burns biographer Robert Crawford and textual expert Christopher MacLachlan, the book also includes a substantial introduction that puts the poet in biographical, historical, and cultural context. The Best Laid Schemes demonstrates like no other collection why Burns is considered one of the world's greatest poets of love and democracy--and why he continues to entertain, move, and intrigue readers two and a half centuries after his birth."--Publisher description.

Understanding Robert Burns

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Publisher : Neil Wilson Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Robert Burns written by Robert Burns and published by Neil Wilson Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although recognised throughout the world, the poems of Robert Burns are rarely understood. This book gives readers an immediate understanding of 138 of his poems.

Selected Poems and Songs

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Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191633127
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems and Songs written by Robert Burns and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Poetic Genius of my Country...bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my natal Soil, in my native tongue.' Many of the poems and songs of Robert Burns (1759-96) are familiar to readers the world over: lyrical, acerbic, comic, bawdy, democratic. They include 'To a Mouse', 'John Anderson my Jo', 'A red red Rose', 'Auld lang syne', 'Tam o 'Shanter' and many more, whose vernacular energy and simple beauty have ensured lasting popularity. This generous new selection offers Burns's work as it was first encountered by contemporary readers, presenting the texts in the contexts in which they were originally published. It reproduces the whole of Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect published at Kilmarnock in 1786, the volume which made Burns famous; and it reunites a generous selection of songs from The Scots Musical Museum and A Select Collection of Scottish Airs with their full scores. Comprehensive notes describe the circumstances in which other poems and songs found their way into print, both before and after the poet's death. The edition also includes some important letters, and a full glossary to explain Scots words.

Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect written by Robert Burns and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Robert Burns in Your Pocket

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Publisher : Waverley Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781902407814
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Robert Burns in Your Pocket written by Robert Burns and published by Waverley Books Limited. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a clear and accessible biography of Burns and his work, fifty-two of Burns poems and songs, a comprehensive glossary of Scots words, an index of first lines and line drawings of scenes from his life, this compact book combines quality, style and value.

The works of Robert Burns

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The works of Robert Burns written by Robert Burns and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!

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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820343013
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! written by Robert E. Burns and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! is the amazing true story of one man's search for meaning, fall from grace, and eventual victory over injustice. In 1921, Robert E. Burns was a shell-shocked and penniless veteran who found himself at the mercy of Georgia's barbaric penal system when he fell in with a gang of petty thieves. Sentenced to six to ten years' hard labor for his part in a robbery that netted less than $6.00, Burns was shackled to a county chain gang. After four months of backbreaking work, he made a daring escape, dodging shotgun blasts, racing through swamps, and eluding bloodhounds on his way north. For seven years Burns lived as a free man. He married and became a prosperous Chicago businessman and publisher. When he fell in love with another woman, however, his jealous wife turned him in to the police, who arrested him as a fugitive from justice. Although he was promised lenient treatment and a quick pardon, he was back on a chain gang within a month. Undaunted, Burns did the impossible and escaped a second time, this time to New Jersey. He was still a hunted man living in hiding when this book was first published in 1932. The book and its movie version, nominated for a Best Picture Oscar in 1933, shocked the world by exposing Georgia's brutal treatment of prisoners. I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! is a daring and heartbreaking book, an odyssey of misfortune, love, betrayal, adventure, and, above all, the unshakable courage and inner strength of the fugitive himself.

The Poetical Works of Robert Burns

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Poetical Works of Robert Burns written by Robert Burns and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: