Poems, Songs And Letters: Being the Complete Works of Robert Burns - Couverture souple

Burns, Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0548734984 ISBN 13 : 9780548734988

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing, 2007

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A yr, in the neighbourhood of Alloway Kirk and the Bridge of Boon, on the 25th January, 1759. The cottage, a clay one, had been constructed by his father, and a week after the poets birth it gave way in a violent wind, and mother and child were carried at midnight to the shelter of a neighbours dwelling. When Burns became famous he wore, more however for ornament than use like the second jacket of a hussar a certain vague Jacobitism. Both in his verses and his letters he makes allusion to the constancy with which his ancestors followed the banner of the Stuarts, and to the misfortunes which their loyalty brought upon them. The family was a Kincardineshire one in which county, indeed, it can be traced pretty far back by inscriptions in churchyards, documents appertaining to leases and the like and the poets grandfather and uncles were out, it is said, in the Rebellion of 1715. When the title and estates of the Earl Marischal were forfeited on account of the uprising, Burns sgrandfather seems to have been brought into trouble. He lost his farm, and his son came southward in search of employment. The poets father, who spelt his name Burnes, and who was suspected of having a share in the Rebellion of 1745, came into the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, where he obtained employment as a gardener. Afterwards he went into A yrshire, where, becoming overseer to Mr. Ferguson of Doonholm and leasing a few acres of land, he erected a house and brought home his wife, Agnes Brown, in December 1757. Robert was the firstborn. Brain, hypochondria, and general superiority he inherited from his father ;from his mother he drew his lyrical gift, his wit, his mirth. She had a fine complexion, bright dark eyes, cheerful spirits, and a memory stored with song and ballad a love for which Robert drew in with her milk. In 1766, William Burnes removed to the farm of Mount Oliphant in the p
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0548734984
• ISBN 13: 9780548734988
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 708
• Éditeur: Smith Alexander Captain
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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