Poetry & Poets: 19th Century
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£19.95Breaking Away: Coleridge In Scotland - Hardback
Samuel Taylor Coleridge set out on a tour of Scotland with William and Dorothy Wordsworth in the summer of 1803. This volume draws on Coleridge's letters and notebooks to look at his travels with the Wordsworths and to record and photograph the journey he experienced after he parted from them. -
£1.95Burns - Authentic Likenesses - - Paperback
Basil Skinner, assistant keeper in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, originally produced this volume on the authentic likenesses of Robert Burns in 1963. - £4.95Burns-Lore Of Dumfries And Galloway - - Paperback
James A. McKay offers a glimpse of the last eight years of the life of Robert Burns, when he was resident at Ellisland and in Dumfries. -
£9.99Byron: Life And Legend - - Paperback
For this biography of Byron, Fiona MacCarthy has had exclusive access to the full John Murray Byron archive. She brings a fresh eye to Byron's childhood in Scotland, his embattled relations with his mother, and the effect on him of his deformed foot. -
£9.79The Comic Legend Of William McGonagall - - Hardback
Scots, young and old, at home and abroad, celebrate the memory of 'the worst poet of all time', William McGonagall, and this new presentation of his work will appeal to those who already hold him dear, and bring a new audience to his work. -
£20.00Electric Shepherd: A Likeness Of James Hogg - - Hardback
A biography of one of Scotland's most unusual literary figures. With no schooling after the age of seven, James Hogg struggled to write and taught himself the violin. Yet he went on to number such literary giants as Wordsworth and Walter Scott among his friends, and to become a poet and novelist. - £43.00James Hogg: A Bard Of Nature's Making - - Paperback
Valentina Bold sheds new light on Scottish poet James Hogg (1770-1835), going beyond the 'Ettrick Shepherd' stereotype. By focussing on Hogg's poetry it shows that his work, and the critical response to it, was significantly shaped by the concept of the autodidact: a working class writer who was considered to be a poet of 'nature's making'. -
£25.00James Hogg: A Life - - Hardback
James Hogg's life-story is one of extraordinary transitions. In his own lifetime he was best-known as a heaven-inspired but naive Scottish rustic whose intelligence went largely unacknowledged by his contemporaries. -
£70.00John Stuart Blackie: Scottish Scholar And Patriot - - Hardback
This volume looks at John Stuart Blackie, one of the most impressive and influential figures of 19th-century Scotland, as well as one of the most striking and flamboyant. As an intellectual, he translated Goethe's 'Faust' and brought first-hand knowledge of German philosophy to Scotland. - £9.95The Meaning Of Mallarmé: A Bilingual Edition Of His Poésies And Un Coup De Dés - - Paperback
The Meaning of Mallarmé also includes an analysis of the writer's thoughts and technique