Burns the radical
poetry and politics in late eighteenth-century Scotland
by Liam McIlvanney
"In this, the first book-length treatment of Burns's politics, Liam McIlvanney looks behind the trivialising image of the 'heav'n-taught ploughman' to uncover the intellectual context of the poet's political radicalism. McIlvanney reveals Burns as a sophisticated political poet whose work draws on a range of intellectual resources: the democratic, contractarian ideology of Scottish Presbyterianism, the English and Irish 'Real Whig' tradition, and the political theory of the Scottish Enlightenment. Throwing new light on the poet's education and his early reading, McIlvanney provides detailed new readings of Burns's major poems. The book also offers new research on Burns's links with Irish poets and radicals, providing a radical reinterpretation of the man who is coming to be recognised as the poet laureate of the radical Enlightenment."--Jacket.
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History, History and criticism, Political and social views, Politics and government, Politics and literature, Radicalism, Radicalism in literature, Scottish Political poetry, English Political poetry, Criticism and interpretationPeople
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Burns the Radical: Poetry and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland
April 1, 2004, Tuckwell Press, Ltd.
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in English
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Burns the radical: poetry and politics in late eighteenth-century Scotland
2002, Tuckwell
in English
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-254) and index.
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