Burns and Other Poets by David Sergeant
Examines the innovative and technically accomplished nature of Burns' poetry. This book features essays on Burns' special place in Scottish, English and Irish literary culture. It demonstrates how Burns drew on Scottish vernacular traditions, English poetry and 18th-century sentimentalism to create his own, new kind of poetry.
David Sergeant is Lecturer in English post-1850 at Plymouth University. Fiona Stafford is Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford. She has published widely on Romantic literature, Scottish and Irish literature and poetic dialogues. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Robert Burns Centre in Glasgow. Her books include Local Attachments (OUP, 2010); Brief Lives: Jane Austen (Hesperus, 2008); Starting Lines in Scottish, Irish and English Poetry, from Burns to Heaney (OUP, 2000); The Last of the Race (OUP, 1994); The Sublime Savage: James Macpherson and the Poems of Ossian (EUP, 1988).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780748664887 |
| ISBN 10 | 0748664882 |
| Title | Burns and Other Poets |
| Author | David Sergeant |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
| Year published | 2013-09-30 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
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