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Robert Burns

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A poet's account of his own family opens William Allan Neilson's study of Robert Burns. The biography begins in Alloway, where Burns's father combined gardening with the struggle to support a growing household, then follows the family through the farms of Mount Oliphant and Lochlea. Winter lessons and conversations during farm work give the opening a close view of the education behind Burns's writing. Passages from his letters and poems place his own voice alongside Neilson's account.

The book also examines Burns's language, Scottish songs, satires, epistles, and narrative verse. Its discussion of song weighs uneven work against lyrics whose everyday diction carries strong feeling and sly humor. Printed songs retain their Scots wording, with brief glosses to help readers follow unfamiliar terms.

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William Allan Neilson

William Allan Neilson (1869–1946) was a Scottish-born American scholar of English literature who taught at Harvard and served as president of Smith College from 1917 to 1939. He edited Shakespeare and Elizabethan drama and was editor in chief of the second edition of Webster's New International Dictionary.

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Author: William Allan Neilson
Reading time: About 5 hours
Pages: 220
Language: English
Genre: Poetry
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