Category: Poetry

A day with the poet Burns

Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 [Contributor]; Hardy, Dudley, 1867-1922 [Illustrator]; Haslehust, E. W., 1866-1949 [Illustrator]; Neatby, William James, 1860-1910 [Illustrator]· 2 chapters· 4,794 words

There are few figures which appeal more picturesquely to the imagination than that of the ploughman-poet--swarthy, stalwart, black-eyed,--striding along the furrow in the grey of a dreary dawn. Yet Burns was far from being a mere uncultured peasant, nor did he come of peasant...

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1. Part 1

There are few figures which appeal more picturesquely to the imagination than that of the ploughman-poet--swarthy, stalwart, black-eyed,--striding along the furrow in the grey o...

2. Part 2

Now, in the quiet house, the man at last is free to take up his pen. He is writing hard, daily, or rather nightly: every week sees a parcel of manuscript despatched to his publi...