poetry and improvement in late eighteenth-century Scotland /
Nigel Leask.
New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
1 online resource (xiv, 347 pages) :
illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Robert Burns and the 'new husbandry' -- Scots pastoral -- The making of a poet -- Pastoral politics -- Beasties -- Hellfire and common sense -- The annals of the poor -- The Deil and the Exciseman -- Across the shadow line : Robert Burns and British Romanticism.
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This text restores the long marginalised Scottish poet Robert Burns to his rightful place as a major poet of the 18th century & Romantic period. It discusses his education as a farmer during the revolutionary period of 'improvement' in 18th-century Scotland, decision to write 'Scots pastoral' poetry, & influence on Wordsworth and Coleridge.
MIL
271261
Robert Burns and pastoral.
9780199572618
Burns, Robert,1759-1796-- Criticism and interpretation.
Burns, Robert,1759-1796.
Agriculture in literature.
Agriculture-- Scotland-- History-- 18th century.
Pastoral poetry, English-- 18th century-- History and criticism.