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Search - Robert Burns With An Account Of His Life And A Criticism On His Writings - Vol II

Robert Burns With An Account Of His Life And A Criticism On His Writings - Vol II
Author: Robert Burns

ROBERT BURNS AN ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE, AND A CRITICISM ON HIS WRITINGS. TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED,, SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE CHARACTER AND CONDITION OF THE SCOTTISH PEASANTRY, IN FOUR VOL. II THJE SIXTH ED TJff Wi 11 LONDON FEINTED ECU T. CADELX, AND Vf DAVIES, AND NY, CREECH, AT EDINBURGH BY J, M CUEERY, BtACK-HORSE-COUUT, FLE1ST-8TREH ADVERTISEMENT.... more » IT is impossible to dismiss this Volume of the Correspondence of our Bard, without some anxiety as to the reception it may meet with. The experiment we are making has not often been tried perhaps on no occasion has so large a portion of the recent and unpremeditated effusions of a man of genius been committed to the press. Of the following letters of Burns, a consi derable number were transmitted for publica tion, by the individuals to whom they were ad dressed but very few have been printed entire. It will easily be believed, that, in a series of letters, written without the least view to publi cation, various passages were found unfit for VOL, IL a the VI ADVERTISEMENT. the press, from different considerations. It will also be readily supposed, that our Poet, writing nearly at the same time, and under the same feelings to different individuals, would sometimes fall into the same train of sentiment and forms of expression. To avoid, therefore, the tediousness of such repetitions, it has been found necessary to mutilate many of the indi vidual letters, and sometimes to exscind parts of great delicacy the unbridled effusions of pane gyric and regard. But though many of the letters are printed from originals furnished by the persons to whom they were addressed, others are printed from first draughts, or sketches, found among the papers of our Bard, Though ia general no man committed his thoughts to his correspondents with less consideration or effort than Burns, yet it appears that in some instances he was dissatisfied with his first essays, and wrote out his communications in a fairer character, or perhaps m more studied language. In the chaos of his manuscripts, some of the original sketches were found and as these sketches, though less perfect, are fairly to be considered as the offspring of his mind, where they ADVERTISEMENT. Vll they have seemed in themselves worthy of a place m this volume, we have not hesitated to insert them, though they may not always cor respond exactly with the letters transmitted, which have been lost or withheld. Our author appears at one time to have formed an intention of making a collection of his letters for the amusement of a friend. Accordingly he copied an inrnnsidrrahlp num ber of them into a book, which he presented to Robert Riddel, of Glenriddel, Esq. Among these was the account of his life, addressed to Dr. Moore, and printed in the first volume. In, copying from his imperfect sketches, it does not appear that he had the letters actually sent to his correspondents before him he seems to have occasionally enlarged his observations, and altered his expressions. In such instances his emendations have been adopted, but in truth there are but five of the letters thus selected by the poet, to be found in the present volume, the rest being thought of inferior merit, or otherwise unfit for the public eye. In printing this volume, the Editor has found ADVERTISEMENT found some corrections of grammar necessary but these have been very few, and such as may be supposed to occur in the careless effusions-, even of literary characters, who have not been in the habit of carrying their compositions to the press. These corrections have never been extended to any habitual modes of expression of the Poet 5 even where his phraseology may seem to violate the delicacies of taste., or the idiom of our language, which he wrote in gene ral with great accuracy. Some difference will indeed be found in this respect in his earlier and in his later compositions - and this volume will exhibit the progress of his style, as well as the history of his mind...

ISBN-13: 9781406749946
ISBN-10: 140674994X
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 496
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Publisher: Hanlins Press
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