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A Day with the Poet Burns
here are few figures which appeal more picturesquely to the imagination than that of the ploughman-poetswarthy, stalwart, black-eyed,striding along the furrow in the grey of a dreary dawn. Yet Burns was far from being a mere uncultured peasant, nor did he come of peasant stock. His forefathers were small yeoman farmers, who had risked themselves in the cause of the Young Pretender: they had a certain amount of family pride and family tradition. Robert Burns had been educated in small schools, by various tutors, and by his father, a man of considerable attainments. He had acquired some French and Latin, studied mensuration, and acquainted himself with a good deal of poetry and many theological and philosophical books. So that the man who may be seen going out this dusky morning from his little farmstead of Ellisland near Dumfriesthe dark and taciturn man in hodden grey and rough top bootsis not precisely a son of the soil. He is a hard worker in the field by dint of necessity, but his strenuous and impetuous mind is set upon other thoughts than the plough, as he drives his share along the Nithsdale uplands. It is exactly the season of the year that he delights in. "There is scarcely any earthly object," he has written, "which gives me moreI do not know if I should call it pleasure, but something that exalts me, something that enraptures methan to walk in the sheltered side of a wood or high plantation on a cloudy winter's day, and hear the stormy wind howling among the trees, or raving over the plains. I take a peculiar pleasure in the season of winter, more than the rest of the year. There is something that raises the mind to a serious sublimity, favourable to everything great and noble." And there is also something secretly akin to the poet's wild and passionate soul. For this is not a happy man, but an embittered one, and ready to "rail on Lady Fortune in good set terms." He takes the storm-wind for an interpreter: ......Buy Now (To Read More)
Ebook Number: 35293
Author: Burns, Robert
Release Date: Feb 15, 2011
Format: eBook
Language: English
Illustrator: Hardy, Dudley, 1867-1922 , Neatby, William James, 1860-1910
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