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Bard Bart - Poetic Rhymes and Punchlines won the Pinnacle Book Achievement Award as Best Book-Poetry Category from the North American Bookdealers Exchange (NABE) in 2017, and has received top critical reviews. It is a book of carefully structured poems, with rhythm, rhyme, and meticulous wordsmithing, which invariably offer critical life lessons in the form of powerful poetic punchlines.
Excerpt from The Bard: And Minor Poems Nor can it be justly argued that our more modern writers, notwithstanding the frequency of assertions to the contrary, have lost any of that fire, spirit, and originality, which distinguished their more venerable progenitors. The Poets of the last century have nobly emulated their illus trions predecessors, and it may be greatly questioned if any previous era in our history, not excepting the brilliant reign of Elizabeth, has produced so glorious a result as that to which Wordsworth, Coleridge, Campbell, Byron, Southey, Moore, Shelley, Wilson, Montgomery, and others, have so largely contributed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
No writer is more charismatic than Robert Burns. Wonderfully readable, The Bard catches Burns's energy, brilliance, and radicalism as never before. To his international admirers he was a genius, a hero, a warm-hearted friend; yet to the mother of one of his lovers he was a wastrel, to a fellow poet he was "sprung . . . from raking of dung," and to his political enemies a "traitor." Drawing on a surprising number of untapped sources--from rediscovered poetry by Burns to manuscript journals, correspondence, and oratory by his contemporaries--this new biography presents the remarkable life, loves, and struggles of the great poet. Inspired by the American and French Revolutions and molded by the Scottish Enlightenment, Burns was in several senses the first of the major Romantics. With a poet's insight and a shrewd sense of human drama, Robert Crawford outlines how Burns combined a childhood steeped in the peasant song-culture of rural Scotland with a consummate linguistic artistry to become not only the world's most popular love poet but also the controversial master poet of modern democracy. Written with accessible elan and nuanced attention to Burns's poems and letters, The Bard is the story of an extraordinary man fighting to maintain a sly sense of integrity in the face of overwhelming pressures. This incisive biography startlingly demonstrates why the life and work of Scotland's greatest poet still compel the attention of the world a quarter of a millennium after his birth.
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Whether male or female, loyalist or radical, urban or rural, literati or autodidacts, Scottish Lowland poets in the age of Burns adamantly refuse to imagine a single British nation. Instead, they pose the question of "Scotland" as a revolutionary category, always subject to creative destruction and reformation.