SELECTED POEMS AND SONGS (ROBERT BURNS) (PB) (OUP)

The Oxford World Classics edition is now availabel in paperback. It presents Burns's work as it was first encountered by contemporary readers, presenting the texts in the contexts in which they were originallypublished. It reproduces the whole of Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect published at Kilmarnock in 1786, the volume which made Burns famous; and it reunites a generous selection of songs from The Scots Musical Museum and A Select Collection of Scottish Airs with their full scores. Comprehensive notes describe the circumstances in which other poems and songs found their way into print, both before and after the poet's death and it also includes some important letters, and a full glossary to explain Scots words.