Robert Burns and the Sentimental Era

By Carol McGuirk

When the young and still obscure Robert Burns arrived in Edinburgh in 1786, he was hailed as the heav'n-taught ploughman, a characterization that, with its aura of primitive purity, strongly appealed to the intellectuals of the sentimental era. Today, this demeaningly rustic image of Burns persists - at least outside Scotland -in the form of a general critical view that denies the skill and sophistication of his finest works, including the ironic Tam O' Shanter.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820307394
• ISBN13: 9780820307398
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.0" x 6.8"