The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan CunninghamBy Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham
Length38h 13m
About this audiobook
The Complete Works of Robert Burns gathers the poems, songs, and correspondence of Scotland's national bard into a capacious literary archive of vernacular brilliance, radical sympathy, and lyrical invention. Moving from rustic satire and devotional parody to love song, political epigram, dramatic narrative, and intimate letter, the volume situates such enduring pieces as Tam o' Shanter, To a Mouse, and Auld Lang Syne within the full range of Burns's expressive achievement. Burns's background as a tenant farmer, exciseman, song collector, and self-fashioned man of letters gives the collection its distinctive fusion of local rootedness and Enlightenment cosmopolitanism. Allan Cunningham's editorial presence reflects the nineteenth-century effort to preserve, contextualize, and nationalize Burns's legacy within Scottish literary culture. Together, the works illuminate the ballad tradition, Scots song, sentimentalism, democratic feeling, and the Romantic-era fascination with folk voice and cultural memory. This volume is ideal for readers seeking both the celebrated Burns and the less familiar correspondent, satirist, and cultural critic. It offers a rare opportunity to encounter a multiplicity of tones and forms in one place, fostering dialogue between public song, private reflection, and poetic experiment while deepening appreciation of Scotland's literary inheritance.
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, Literary Classics
Length38 hrs 13 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 21, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
26IN THE PROSPECT OF DEATH.
2EPITAPHS, EPIGRAMS, FRAGMENTS, &c.
27ON THE SAME OCCASION.
3SONGS AND BALLADS.
28A WINTER NIGHT.
4GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE.
29A FRAGMENT.
5LIFE OF ROBERT BURNS. (pt. 1)
30A CANTATA.
Show all chaptersShow less
6LIFE OF ROBERT BURNS. (pt. 2)
31FOOTNOTES:
7PREFACE.
32A TRUE STORY.
8POETICAL WORKS
33FOOTNOTES:
9ROBERT BURNS.
34THE TWA HERDS:
10WINTER.
35THE HOLY TULZIE.
11A DIRGE.
36HOLY WILLIE’S PRAYER.
12FOOTNOTES:
37EPITAPH ON HOLY WILLIE.
13DEATH AND DYING WORDS
38IN ANSWER TO A MANDATE BY THE SURVEYOR OF THE TAXES.
14THE AUTHOR’S ONLY PET YOWE.
39FOOTNOTES:
15FOOTNOTES:
40THE HOLY FAIR.
16POOR MAILIE’S ELEGY.
41FOOTNOTES:
17FOOTNOTES:
42THE ORDINATION.
18A BROTHER POET
43FOOTNOTES:
19FOOTNOTES:
44TO THE REV. MR. JAMES STEVEN.
20A BROTHER POET.
45TO JAMES SMITH.
21ADDRESS TO THE DEIL
46DUAN FIRST.[19]
22THE AULD FARMER’S
47DUAN SECOND
23AULD MARE MAGGIE,
48FOOTNOTES:
24TO A HAGGIS.
49HALLOWEEN.[28]
25UNDER THE PRESSURE OF VIOLENT ANGUISH.
50FOOTNOTES:
More from Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson5h 23m$16
The Weary Blues (Annotated)Langston Hughes2h 13m$2 · $0.00
The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)Edgar Allan Poe18h 27m$2 · $0.00
Stranger MusicLeonard Cohen5h 45m$20
The Essential Rumi, New Expanded EditionJalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi9h 24m$20
The Complete Poetry (Annotated)Oscar Wilde6h 44m$2 · $0.00
The Complete Works (Annotated)Robert Burns38h 34m$2 · $0.00
Saundarya LahariUnknown Author3h 16m5.0 (1)$18 · $0.00
The Mesnevi (Annotated)Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi18h 41m$2 · $0.00
Songs of a SourdoughRobert W. Service2h 13m$1 · $0.00
Little Flower of Jesus (Annotated)Thérèse of Lisieux5h 4m$2 · $0.00
The Poems of LeopardiGiacomo Leopardi3h 9m$2 · $0.00
I Hope This Finds You WellKate Baer50m$6 · $0.00
Nikki Giovanni: Love Poems & A Good CryNikki Giovanni2h 44m$18 · $0.00
Vulnerable AFTarriona “Tank” Ball42m$4
The Complete Poetry of Walt Whitman (Annotated)Walt Whitman20h 1m$2 · $0.00
A Year with RumiColeman Barks5h 56m$24 · $0.00
Dear MotherBunmi Laditan1h 4m$12 · $0.00
Complete Poetry of Rudyard Kipling (Annotated)Rudyard Kipling23h 1m$3 · $0.00
Homer: The Complete Works (The Giants of Literature - Book 16) (Annotated)Homer32h 28m$2 · $0.00
The Complete Works: Charlotte, Emily, Anne, Patrick & Branwell BrontëCharlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë138h 12m$1 · $0.00
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Annotated)Oscar Wilde126h 19m$2 · $0.00
L. M. Montgomery – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & MemoirsLucy Maud Montgomery155h 1m$2 · $0.00
The Complete Works of the Brontë Family Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë140h 13m$2 · $0.00
MARK TWAIN: 12 Novels, 195 Short Stories, Autobiography, 10 Travel Books, 160+ Essays & Speeches (Illustrated)Mark Twain415h 9m5.0 (2)$2 · $0.00
This Side of Paradise - The Original 1920 Edition (Annotated)F. Scott Fitzgerald11h 30m$2 · $0.00
The Great Gatsby: Original 1925 Edition (An F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic NovelFrancis Scott Fitzgerald4h 45m$18 · $0.00
Ivanhoe (Annotated)Walter Scott22h 52m$2 · $0.00
All NovelsGeorge Orwell53h 48m$10 · $0.00
The Complete Works of TolstoyLeo Tolstoy412h 44m$1 · $0.00
The Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Annotated)Louisa May Alcott226h 24m$2 · $0.00
Sherlock Holmes series - completeArthur Conan54h 8m$3.50 · $0.00
The Fire Next TimeJames Baldwin2h 25m$15
The Count of Monte Cristo (With Original Illustrations)Alexandre Dumas54h$1 · $0.00
H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction (Annotated)H. P. Lovecraft50h 45m$2 · $0.00
Braving the TruthRachel Held Evans11h 31m$29 · $0.00
The Complete Novels of Charlotte Brontë (Annotated)Charlotte Brontë80h 42m$2 · $0.00
Richard Wagamese SelectedRichard Wagamese3h 14m$15
The Old Man and the Sea (Annotated)Ernest Hemingway4h 27m$2 · $0.00
Twelfth Night (The Unabridged Play) + The Classic Biography (Annotated)William Shakespeare, Sidney Lee16h 38m$2 · $0.00
You may also like
Alarms and DiscursionsGilbert Keith Chesterton5h 19m$2 · $0.00
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell LowellJames Russell Lowell28h 52m$1 · $0.00
Rip Van WinkleWashington Irving34m$2 · $0.00
Bird Songs in LiteratureJoseph Wood Krutch, Peter Kellogg45m$7
The Ingoldsby Legends; or, Mirth and Marvels (Annotated)Thomas Ingoldsby20h 21m$2 · $0.00
The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and CorrespondenceRobert Burns, Allan Cunningham43h 7m$1 · $0.00
The Feast of the Virgins and Other PoemsHanford Lennox Gordon4h 25m$2 · $0.00
The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and CorrespondenceAllan Cunningham42h 11m$2 · $0.00
The Just So Stories for Little Children (Illustrated) (Annotated)Rudyard Kipling4h 53m$2 · $0.00
By Trench and Trail in Song and StoryAngus Mackay1h 49m$2 · $0.00
Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy; and Other PoemsRichard Le Gallienne48m$2 · $0.00
The Poem-Book of the GaelVarious7h 20m$1 · $0.00
The Fairy Changeling and Other PoemsDora Sigerson Shorter1h 56m$2 · $0.00
Through the Year with Famous AuthorsMabel Patterson3h 22m$2 · $0.00
The Green Helmet and Other PoemsW. B. Yeats1h 57m$2 · $0.00
The Mountainy SingerJoseph Campbell1h 40m$1 · $0.00
The Devil's PoolGeorge Sand4h 9m$2.30
John Keats: Hyperion (Unabridged) (Annotated)John Keats23h 19m$2 · $0.00
The Fairy LegendsThomas Keightley22h 30m$2 · $0.00
Hans Christian Andersen: The 50 greatest fairy tales. Vol. 2Hans Christian Andersen11h 1m$29 · $0.00