A Night Out with Robert Burns: The Greatest Poems
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"'Save this collection a place at your Burn's table.'- Guardian * 'People who find it hard to get into Robert Burns have the answer to their prayers with this book. Here are The Greatest Poems presented in a way that Burns himself would have enjoyed -- letting the poems chime and rhyme with the debates that surround us in the world today. Somebody clever once said that poetry helps you to live your life, and here is Burns at his most helpful, in conversation with a Scottish writer who loves him, Andrew O'Hagan. I think the book will change a lot of people's attitude to poetry.' - Ewan McGregor * 'The way Burns sounded, his choice of words, his rhymes and metaphors, all that collapsed the distance I expected to feel between myself and the schoolbook poetry I encountered first at Anahorish Elementary School...He did not fail the Muse or us or himself as one of poetry's chosen instruments.' - Seamus Heaney * 'O'Hagan strips away the sentimentality which continues to cling to Burn's coat-tails and offers him to us at his very best - political, passionate, incisive and expressive - with biographical and textual notes that greatly enrich the reader's experience.' - The Guardian * 'Picking out his favourite Burns poems, [O'Hagan] explains why each of them still matters, either personally or politically, with the lucidity one has come to expect from one of the leading Scottish essayists and novelists of his generation.' - The Scotsman"
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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 since become the patron saint of the heart-sore and the hung-over. 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: a reader's edition, made for the pleasure of reading. Novelist and Scottish essayist Andrew O'Hagan comes into company with the poet who has mattered most to him in his writing life. He selects the poems for the reader, and converses with the work, offering fragments and distilled commentary of his own.The effect is explosive, giving us Robert Burns at his very best - a political Burns, a poet who can name hypocrisy and intolerance, and point directly to the human heart.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
I'm very fond of this book, and this is the third format I've purchased it in (hardback for myself, paperback for lending, and now the Kindle version for portability. O'Hagan is an honest writer, and this is an honest book. His appreciation of Burns (for that's what this is) shines with a love and respect that's heartening to read. I can't quibble with his selection of poems. Obviously there are some missing favourites for me, but the poems here are universally excellent.
Format:Paperback
I got this in time for my Burns party at the end of Jan. We had great fun reading through the poems and eating our neeps and tatties. Each poem has a little blurb to contextualise it too. A nice edition.
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15 Dec 2011
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This book has been an excellent introduction to Rabbie Burns for me and my family. We started celebrating Burns night (Jan. 25) a couple years ago and now have quite a few friends who wouldn't miss it. The author gives a little perspective on each poem beforehand and a decent introduction. My only complaint is that "Address to a Haggis" is not included.
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