The Complete Works (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Poems, Songs, Satires, and Letters in Scots and English from Eighteenth-Century ScotlandBy Robert Burns
Length38h 34m
About this audiobook
The Complete Works gathers Robert Burns's poems, songs, epistles, satires, and occasional verse into a portrait of extraordinary range: rustic comedy, political indignation, erotic tenderness, devotional unease, and democratic fellow-feeling. Written in Scots, English, and rich hybrid idioms, these works transform vernacular speech into high literary art. In the context of the Scottish Enlightenment and late eighteenth-century Romantic emergence, Burns stands between oral tradition and print culture, preserving folk song while reshaping it with unmistakable lyric intelligence. Burns himself was the son of an Ayrshire tenant farmer, educated beyond his station yet deeply formed by rural labor, Presbyterian culture, popular song, and the social inequalities of his age. His experience as ploughman, exciseman, lover, patriot, and sharp observer of class gave his writing its rare authority. He wrote not as a detached antiquarian but as a participant in the world he celebrated and criticized. This volume is essential for readers seeking the full measure of Burns's genius. It rewards lovers of poetry, Scottish literature, song, folklore, and social history alike, offering a body of work at once intimate, musical, rebellious, and enduringly humane.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenrePoetry
Length38 hrs 34 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 5, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Historical Manual of English Prosody (Annotated)
26A WINTER NIGHT.
2EPITAPHS, EPIGRAMS, FRAGMENTS, &c.
27A FRAGMENT.
3SONGS AND BALLADS.
28A CANTATA.
4GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE.
29FOOTNOTES:
5LIFE OF ROBERT BURNS. (pt. 1)
30A TRUE STORY.
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6LIFE OF ROBERT BURNS. (pt. 2)
31FOOTNOTES:
7PREFACE.
32THE TWA HERDS:
8WINTER.
33THE HOLY TULZIE.
9A DIRGE.
34HOLY WILLIE’S PRAYER.
10FOOTNOTES:
35EPITAPH ON HOLY WILLIE.
11DEATH AND DYING WORDS
36IN ANSWER TO A MANDATE BY THE SURVEYOR OF THE TAXES.
12THE AUTHOR’S ONLY PET YOWE.
37FOOTNOTES:
13FOOTNOTES:
38THE HOLY FAIR.
14POOR MAILIE’S ELEGY.
39FOOTNOTES:
15FOOTNOTES:
40THE ORDINATION.
16A BROTHER POET
41FOOTNOTES:
17FOOTNOTES:
42TO THE REV. MR. JAMES STEVEN.
18A BROTHER POET.
43TO JAMES SMITH.
19ADDRESS TO THE DEIL
44DUAN FIRST.[19]
20THE AULD FARMER’S
45DUAN SECOND
21AULD MARE MAGGIE,
46FOOTNOTES:
22TO A HAGGIS.
47HALLOWEEN.[28]
23UNDER THE PRESSURE OF VIOLENT ANGUISH.
48FOOTNOTES:
24IN THE PROSPECT OF DEATH.
49A DIRGE.
25ON THE SAME OCCASION.
50TO RUIN.
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