Robert Burns and the Sentimental Era

In her introduction the author refers to Robert Burns as the "only great poet to ever emerge from the British peasant class, hailed as "the heav'n taught ploughman" by the Edinburgh elites of his time. In this work of literary criticism Carol McGuirk endeavours to refute this simplistic and "demeaningly rustic image" of Burns by showing that his poetry to be "introspective yet intensely responsive, Scottish yet universal and simple in theme yet infinitely resonant in imagery and language.

1st Published in U.S.A. by University of Georgia Press, 1985. The Author Carol McGuirk was Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Florida Atlantic University at the time of publication. 

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