The Auld Ayrshire of Robert Burns.

Henderson, T.F.

Verlag: Foulis, 1906

Beschreibung

Small hardback in ornate pictorial front and spine, cloth boards, neat gift inscription to FEP, otherwise in Near Fine condition, ppxii, 146 plus one page of of pubb ads and 10 coloured illustrations, each with a relevant verse opposite, some pages uncut. Extract: 'The rude clay cottage of an obscure country clachan, was, thus, a most un likely place for the birth of a poet so world-famed as Burns; and it was unlikely to the verge of incredibility that poetic achievements of such merit should be accomplished by one who was still a toiling peasant. Of course, with the im pediments which he shared in common with peasants in general, he possessed certain advantages in being a Scottish peasant; and he was also the son of an exceptionally intelligent father; but, making allowance for special favouring in?uences, there is in his triumph a certain uniqueness that awakens in a peculiar manner both our sympathy and our wonder. How ever we may account for that triumph, it must be held to betoken an immense native endowment, a quite exceptional irrepresibility.'. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 011348

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Auld Ayrshire of Robert Burns.

Verlag: Foulis

Erscheinungsdatum: 1906

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Near Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition