A Night Out with Robert Burns : The Greatest Poems (Paperback)

from LizzySiddal

Due to the unexpected pleasure and success of my 2008 Jamesian Experiment, I have extended my 2009 reading ambitions to poetry appreciation. Burns as the starting point probably isn't the wisest move, but this volume, at least, makes it an entertaining one. O'Hagan has organised the poems into se...

from Aitken_ka

A decent introduction to the works of Burns. Some of his most famous poems are ommitted in favour of less well know works. The introduction to collection and the preface to the individual poems provide some valuable context, and highlights their continuing relevance today. The glossary of Scots w...

from IanYorston

This arrived just in time for Burns' Night 2009. A grand addition to the dining table wi' Haggis and Tartan and Pipes. All of Burns' finest - with accompanying notes - and not a little politics...

from klarusu

This is a difficult book to review because for me, it is two separate entities: Burns' poetry and O'Hagan's presentation of it in this particular book. I do love poetry but Burns has never been a poet I've particularly fallen for. I can't say that this book has stimulated any kind of epiphany wit...

from GeraniumCat

Andrew O'Hagan's short introduction to this collection of 41 of Burns's most famous poems is part history, part memoir, so that we learn the brief outline of Burns's life while absorbing a certain amount about O'Hagan's own Ayrshire background. This contextualising of one poet's relationship to a...