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Robert Burns and Pastoral - Poetry and Improvement in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland (Paperback)
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Robert Burns and Pastoral - Poetry and Improvement in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland (Paperback)
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Robert Burns and Pastoral is a full-scale reassessment of the
writings of Robert Burns (1759-1796), arguably the most original
poet writing in the British Isles between Pope and Blake, and the
creator of the first modern vernacular style in British poetry.
Although still celebrated as Scotland's national poet, Burns has
long been marginalised in English literary studies worldwide, due
to a mistaken view that his poetry is linguistically
incomprehensible and of interest to Scottish readers only. Nigel
Leask challenges this view by interpreting Burns's poetry as an
innovative and critical engagement with the experience of rural
modernity, namely to the revolutionary transformation of Scottish
agriculture and society in the decades between 1760 and 1800,
thereby resituating it within the mainstream of the Scottish and
European enlightenments. Detailed study of the literary, social,
and historical contexts of Burns's poetry explodes the myth of the
'Heaven-taught ploughman', revealing his poetic artfulness and
critical acumen as a social observer, as well as his significance
as a Romantic precursor. Leask discusses Burns's radical decision
to write 'Scots pastoral' (rather than English georgic) poetry in
the tradition of Allan Ramsay and Robert Fergusson, focusing on
themes of Scottish and British identity, agricultural improvement,
poetic self-fashioning, language, politics, religion, patronage,
poverty, antiquarianism, and the animal world. The book offers
fresh interpretations of all Burns's major poems and some of the
songs, the first to do so since Thomas Crawford's landmark study of
1960. It concludes with a new assessment of his importance for
British Romanticism and to a 'Four Nations' understanding of
Scottish literature and culture.
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