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Excerpt from The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns Several reviewers, who have done more than, justice to the editor's labours generally, appear to have misconceived his meaning in defend ing the complete reproduction of all the poems, and have discovered some inconsistency in his doing so, after the statement made in his preface, that none of those poems containing objectionable passages were included by the poet in the editions published under his own superintendence. The editor believed he did right in reprinting in full all the poems and songs which had already been given to the world, in a more or less fragmentary state, by previous editors. The original impropriety of printing many of them cannot be questioned; but as they have now become public property, they must find a place in every edition of the poet's works which pretends to completeness. It would have been an easy matter to have introduced several pieces of the same class, which were undoubtedly written by the poet, and which have never appeared in any edition of his works; but to have done this would only have been to repeat the offence against good taste and the memory of the poet which his friends committed when they printed all the mss. Which happened to be in their possession at the time of his death. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns (Classic Reprint)
• Author: Robert Burns
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 726
• EAN: 9781330705261
• ISBN: 9781330705261
• ID: 09681087
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Weight: 953 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 37 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. July 2015

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