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A Night Out with Robert Burns: The Greatest Poems
Andrew O'Hagan
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Description for A Night Out with Robert Burns: The Greatest Poems
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The Scottish poet Robert Burns has been idolised and eulogised. He has been sainted, painted, tarted-up and toasted. He is famous as the author of 'Auld Lang Syne', and he has long been the patron saint of the heartsore and the hungover. But what about the poems? Beneath the cult of Burns Nights and patriotic yawps, there is the work itself, among the purest and most truthful created in any age. This is a Burns collection like no other, introduced, arranged and contextualised by the award-winning novelist and essayist Andrew O'Hagan. Above all, it is an accessible ... Read more
The Scottish poet Robert Burns has been idolised and eulogised. He has been sainted, painted, tarted-up and toasted. He is famous as the author of 'Auld Lang Syne', and he has long been the patron saint of the heartsore and the hungover. But what about the poems? Beneath the cult of Burns Nights and patriotic yawps, there is the work itself, among the purest and most truthful created in any age. This is a Burns collection like no other, introduced, arranged and contextualised by the award-winning novelist and essayist Andrew O'Hagan. Above all, it is an accessible ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786891617
SKU
9781786891617
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Ref
99-1
About Andrew O'Hagan
Andrew O'Hagan was born in Scotland in 1968. He is author of The Missing and Our Fathers which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Holtby Prize for Fiction. With his second novel, Personality, he won the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was named one of Granta's Best of Young British ... Read more
Reviews for A Night Out with Robert Burns: The Greatest Poems
There is probably no better modern introduction to Burns' work . . . A triumph
Herald
Presents Burns as a poet infinitely worth reading
Daily Telegraph
People who find it hard to get into Burns have the answer to their prayers in this book . . . presented ... Read more
Herald
Presents Burns as a poet infinitely worth reading
Daily Telegraph
People who find it hard to get into Burns have the answer to their prayers in this book . . . presented ... Read more