The Canongate Burns: The Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

Edited by Andrew Noble and Patrick Scott Hogg. The Canongate Burns is the most comprehensive and challenging edition of the poems and songs of Robert Burns ever published. Drawing on extensive scholarship and the poet's own inimitable letters, this definitive edition offers a wealth of information on Burns's life and times, the hardship of his early days, his political beliefs, his hatred of injustice and his fate as a writer too often sentimentalised by biographers, critics and well-meaning enthusiasts. The poems are presented in the order of their first appearance, giving further insights into the reception of Burns's work and the guarded relationship he had both with his readers and his own fame. We see Burns as a radical figure in a British as well as a Scottish context, the peer of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats and Byron in the revolutionary and repressive world of the 1790s. With its inclusion of recently attributed poems, explanatory notes and extensive Scots... This “magnificent and authoritative work” presents the complete verse of Scotland’s National Bard with extensive textual and historical notes (Colm Toibin, The Independent , UK). Best known for poems such as “A Red, Red Rose” and “Ae Fond Kiss,” and for the song “Auld Lang Synge,” which is sung around the world every New Years’ Eve, Robert Burns was one of the most important poets of the 18th century. A major influence on the Romantic poetry movement, Burns is still beloved across Scotland, with Burns Night celebrated every January 25th. This complete volume of the writer’s poetry and songs includes previously unpublished pieces, draws on extensive scholarship and Burn’s own letters, and offers supplemental information about his life, early hardships, political beliefs, and literary contexts. An extensive glossary of Scots words is included. “A very fine edition, and the long introduction, which sets out to clear the tangled banks, is alone worth the cover price.”— The Scotsman , UK Poetry and songs. Abstract: A collection of the poems and songs of Robert Burns, with an extensive introduction on the complex social fabric of his life, explanatory notes and a full Scots glossary. It prints the poems in the order of their first appearance, giving insights into the reception of his work. Read more... Content: Vol. I: pt. 1. The Kilmarnock edition, 1786 pt. 2. The Edinburgh edition, 1787 pt. 3. The Edinburgh edition, 1793 pt. 4. The songs of Burns published during his lifetime pt. 5. Anonymous and pseudonymous works -- vol. II: pt. 6. Posthumous works collected 1796-2000 pt. 7. The merry muses of Caledonia pt. 8. Undetermined and rejected works. v. 1. pt. 1. The Kilmarnock edition, 1786 pt. 2. The Edinburgh edition, 1787 pt. 3. The Edinburgh edition, 1793 pt. 4. The songs of Burns published during his lifetime pt. 5. Anonymous and pseudonymous works v. 2. pt. 6. Posthumous works collected 1796-2000 pt. 7. The merry muses of Caledonia pt. 8. Undetermined and rejected works. This book is a complete volume of the poetry and songs of Scotland's national bard and, drawing on extensive scholarship and Burns' own letters, offers supplemental information about his life, early hardships, political beliefs and literary contexts