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Robert Burns: Poems Selected by Don Paterson (Poet to Poet S.) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Robert BurnsRobert Burns (1759-96) was born into a farming family in Ayrshire, Scotland. The publication in 1786 of his first book, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish dialect, made him famous overnight, and saw him feted by Edinburgh society. But Burns made no money from his writing and quickly fell on hard times, returning to farming in Dumfries and, when that failed, to work as an excise officer. He devoted his...
Full description- Publisher: Faber and Faber
- Published: 07 April 2005
- Format: Paperback 112 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Poetry By Individual Poets
- ISBN 13: 9780571226726 ISBN 10: 0571226728
- Sales rank: 815,239
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Full description for Robert Burns
Robert Burns (1759-96) was born into a farming family in Ayrshire, Scotland. The publication in 1786 of his first book, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish dialect, made him famous overnight, and saw him feted by Edinburgh society. But Burns made no money from his writing and quickly fell on hard times, returning to farming in Dumfries and, when that failed, to work as an excise officer. He devoted his final years to poetry and the writing of Scottish songs.
 was born into a farming family in Ayrshire, Scotland. The publication in 1786 of his first book, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish dialect, made him famous overnight, and saw him feted by Edinburgh society. But Burns made no money from his writing and quickly fell on hard times, returning to farming in Dumfries and, when that failed, to work as an excise officer. He devoted his...){kind=link}