Burns and Other Poets / / David Sergeant, Fiona Stafford.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Sergeant, David,; Stafford, Fiona,
• MitwirkendeR: Brown, Rhona,; Carruthers, Gerard,; Crawford, Robert,; Crotty, Patrick,; Dunn, Douglas,; Gill, Stephen,; Gorji, Mina,; Griffin, Michael,; Hammond, Brean,; Johnston, Freya,; Lamont, Claire,; McNeillie, Andrew,; O’Donoghue, Bernard,; O’Halloran, Meiko,; Pittock, Murray,; Sergeant, David,; Stafford, Fiona,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)

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Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• The Devil’s Elbow
• 1. Introduction: Burns and the Performance of Form
• 2. Burns and Loyalty
• 3. Allan Ramsay, Robert Fergusson and Robert Burns
• 4. Robert Burns’s Scots Poetry Contemporaries
• 5. ‘To a Mouse’: Burns, Power and Equality
• 6. Burns’s Sentiments: Gray, Milton and ‘To A Mountain-Daisy’
• 7. House and Home in Burns’s Poems
• 8. ‘The Real Language of Men’: Fa’s Speerin? Burns and the Scottish Romantic Vernacular
• 9. ‘Merry Ha’e We Been’: The Midnight Visions of Brian Merriman and Robert Burns
• 10. Arcades Ambo: Robert Burns and Thomas Dermody
• 11. ‘Simple Bards, unbroke by rules of Art’: The Poetic Self- Fashioning of Burns and Hogg
• 12. Wordsworth and Burns
• 13. The ‘Ethical Turn’ in Literary Criticism: Burns and Byron
• 14. MacDiarmid, Burnsians, and Burns’s Legacy
• 15. Ireland’s National Bard
• 16. The Collapse of Distance: Heaney’s Burns and the 1990s
• ‘The Old Second Division’
• Notes on Contributors
• Index