![]() Included are "The Twa Dogs," a deft satire of the Scottish upper classes "To a Mouse," one of the poet's best known, most charming works "Address to the Unco Guid," an attack on Puritan hypocrisy "Holy Willie's Prayer," one of the great verse-satires of all times as well as such favorites as "The Cotter's Saturday Night," "To a Mountain Daisy," "The Holy Fair," "Address to the Deil," "The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie," and many more. ![]() ![]() The present volume contains 43 of his finest poems and songs, reprinted unabridged from an authoritative tenth-century edition. An immediate success, it established Burns's poetic reputation, which has grown over two centuries to the point where he is not only the Scottish national poet but the object of a cult unique in British poetry. ![]() Robert Burns (1759 – 1796) called himself "an Aeolian harp strung to every wind of heaven." His first volume of poems, entitled Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, was published in 1786. ![]()
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