Robert Burns and Pastoral

Robert Burns and Pastoral
Author: Nigel Leask
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2010-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199572615

This book restores the long marginalised Scottish poet Robert Burns to his rightful place as a major poet of the 18th century and Romantic period. It discusses his education as a farmer during the revolutionary period of 'improvement' in 18th-century Scotland, decision to write 'Scots pastoral' poetry, and influence on Wordsworth and Coleridge.

The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800

The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800
Author: John T. Lynch
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 817
Release: 2016
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0199600805

In the most comprehensive, up-to-date account of the poetry published in Britain between the Restoration and the end of the eighteenth century, a team of leading experts surveys the poetry of the age in all its richness and diversity. They provide a systematic overview, and restore these poetic works to a position of centrality in modern criticism.