The Oxford Edition of the Works of Robert Burns: Volume I: Commonplace Books, Tour Journals, and Miscellaneous Prose
Commonplace Books, Tour Journals, and Miscellaneous Prose
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- Edition number and title :Volume I: Commonplace Books, Tour Journals, and Miscellaneous Prose
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 31 July 2014
- ISBN 9780199603176
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages450 pages
- Size 241x167x41 mm
- Weight 840 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 black-and-white halftones 0
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Short description:
The first volume in Oxford's new edition of The Collected Works of Robert Burns, this volume brings together Burns' prose works for the first time.
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This volume of Robert Burns's Commonplace Books, Tours Journals and Miscellaneous Prose Works is a major contribution to our understanding of the life and writings of one of the major Scottish, and British, poets of all times. To the extent that the Commonplace Books and other prose writings offer a glimpse into Burns's creative workshop, they record the self-conscious poetic development of a man who was endowed with none of the advantages of birth and education enjoyed by many other writers. Spanning nearly two decades of his sadly foreshortened life, they permit a new understanding of his unique relationship to the literary and social culture of late eighteenth-century Scotland, and help explain how and why this humbly-born Ayrshire farmer became a poet of world renown.
The items included here have never before been published complete in one volume (some are published for the first time), and they are arranged chronologically in order to highlight the major creative stages of his life. In contrast to the poems and songs, most of the material included was unpublished during the poet's lifetime, so this new edition is largely based on fresh transcriptions of manuscripts in Burns's hand, or in the hands of his various amanuenses. It offers diplomatic transcriptions that adhere as closely as possible to RB's original manuscript page, retaining his eccentric spellings, capitalisation, long and short dashes, punctuation, and use of ampersands, as well as marking revisions and elisions. The edition features a general introduction, and each item is preceded by full headnote, assessing its importance in relation to Burns's life and poetic corpus. Notes explicate names, cultural, historical and literary references, providing full cross-references these with the poetry and correspondence.
The materials in Professor Leask's volume make a bold revisionary introduction to this major new edition ... Leask has assembled an important set of documents and provided rich descriptive contexts for understanding them.
Table of Contents:
General Introduction
Manual of Religious Belief. (c.1777)
Tarbolton Bachelor's Club. (1781-3)
First Commonplace Book (1783-5)
Prefaces and Dedications to Poems (1786-7)
Second Commonplace Book (1787-90)
Tour of the Scottish Borders and North of England (May-June 1787)
West Highland Tour (June 1787)
Highland Tour (Aug-Sept 1787)
Tour of Stirlingshire, Clackmannanshire and Perthshire (Oct 1787)
Monkland Friendly Society Library (1789-94)
Glenriddell Manuscripts Vol. 1. (1789-93?)
Glenriddell Manuscripts Vol.2. (1791-94?)
Letters to the Press (1788-94)
Prose Fragments.
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