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Excerpt from The Complete Works of Robert Burns, Vol. 6: Self-Interpreting On finishing this last volume, completing our edition of The Works and Life of Robert Burns, we have only to say that we have endeavored fully to fill the promise of excellence and completeness, made in our first volume. We have (as circumstantially stated at page 318 of the present volume) more closely followed the text of the Douglas edition than we originally intended; but we have added many original notes and other interesting memoranda (indicated J. H. or G. G.), besides embodying all notes of previous editors that we thought worthy of preservation; thus carrying forward all the excellence of all previous editions into this edition. Our Illustrations, we think, will speak for themselves. Our chronological arrangement has at least the recommendation of novelty. Our record of the Bibliography of Burns will be useful for understanding the progress of completing his works (see page 310, infra). The Table from page 336 to 342 shews all the editions of his works published in ninety years (three hundred and forty-eight in all), bespeaking a popularity such as no author but Bunyan or Defoe or Shakespeare can boast. For this last-named Table we have to make our acknowledgement to Mr. M'Kie's "The Burns Calendar" (Kilmarnock, 1874). We give the entire Music of the Thomson Collection and of the chief songs from the Johnson Museum. Our Glossary is far more complete than any heretofore published, - and this, notwithstanding that we have generally glossed the English meaning at the end of each line where the Scotch word occurs. Our treatment of the doubtful and spurious pieces is more thorough than ever before attempted. We have to say, in looking back on our labors, that we recognize that Burns has had five great editors, viz.: Currie, Cunningham, Chambers, Waddell and Douglas; and, with our improvements on those editions all herein combined, we think this work is very nearly complete; and we hope and trust that the industry and care we have bestowed on our "labor of love," will be so well appreciated by some future editor as to receive at least, "honorable mention." 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 Works of Robert Burns, Vol. 6
• Subtitle: Self-Interpreting (Classic Reprint)
• Author: Robert Burns
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 466
• EAN: 9781331655213
• ISBN: 9781331655213
• ID: 09772902
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Weight: 617 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. July 2015

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