Robert Burns, the tinder heart / Hugh Douglas
1996, 1st edition. Gloucestershire : A. Sutton Pub. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #427582
ISBN: 0750912138
Physical description; xviii, 299 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-288) and indexes. Contents; Chronology--the Life of Robert Burns--1759-96 -- Auld Sang--New Song -- Apprentice to Love -- Silk Purses and Sows' Lugs -- Sex and Sensibility -- The Mauchline Lady -- St Mary of Argyll -- 'The Most Valued Friend' -- From Greenland to Rapture -- The Passionate Pilgrim -- Clarinda, Mistress of my Soul -- Farthing Taper ... Meridian Sun -- A Wife o' My Ain -- Whittling Cherry-Stones -- My Spirits Fled! -- The Rights of Woman. Subjects; Burns, Robert 1759-1796 Relations with women. Burns, Robert 1759-1796. Love poetry, English History and criticism. Poets, Scottish 18th century ; Biography. Love poetry, English Scottish writers History and criticism. Love poetry, Scottish History and criticism. Scotland In literature.
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