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A Night Out with Robert Burns - (Canons) (Paperback)

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  • The Scottish poet Robert Burns has been idolised and eulogised.
  • About the Author: Andrew O'Hagan was born in Scotland in 1968.
  • 256 Pages
  • Poetry, European
  • Series Name: Canons

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About the Book



The definitive collections of poetry by Robert Burns, arranged and introduced by award-winning writer Andrew O'Hagan. 'Save this collection a place at your Burns table' Guardian



Book Synopsis



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 edition made for the pleasure of reading that brings Burns' timeless work to full, riotous, colourful life.



Review Quotes




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-- "Guardian"

People who find it hard to get into Burns have the answer to their prayers in this book . . . 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--Ewan McGregor

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-- "Scotsman"

Presents Burns as a poet infinitely worth reading-- "Daily Telegraph"

There is probably no better modern introduction to Burns' work . . . A triumph-- "Herald"



About the Author



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 Novelists. Be Near Me, was longlisted for the Booker Prize, as was his most recent novel The Illuminations. He lives in London.
Dimensions (Overall): 7.7 Inches (H) x 5.0 Inches (W) x .7 Inches (D)
Weight: .45 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 256
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: European
Series Title: Canons
Publisher: Canongate Books
Theme: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Format: Paperback
Author: Robert Burns
Language: English
Street Date: November 8, 2022
TCIN: 1010262979
UPC: 9781786891617
Item Number (DPCI): 247-36-2448
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Q: Who arranged and introduced this collection of poetry?

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Q: What unique perspective does O'Hagan provide on Burns' work?

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Q: What notable work is Robert Burns famous for?

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