false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1194875309m/2087371.jpg 2087371 3 The Scottish poet Robert Burns has been idolised and eulogised. He has been sainted, painted, tarted up and toasted. He is famous as the author of 'Auld Lang Syne', and he has long since become the patron saint of the heart-sore and the hung-over. But what about the poems? Beneath the cult of Burns' Nights and patriotic yawps, there is the work itself, among the purest and most truthful created in any age. This is a Burns collection like no other: a reader's edition, made for the pleasure of reading. Novelist and Scottish essayist Andrew O'Hagan comes into company with the poet who has mattered most to him in his writing life. He selects the poems for the reader, and converses with the work, offering fragments and distilled commentary of his own. The effect is explosive, giving us Robert Burns at his very best - a political Burns, a poet who can name hypocrisy and intolerance, and point directly to the human heart. 2092657 24 1 2008 A Night Out with Robert Burns: The Greatest Poems total:4|5:4| 4 20 12 3 5 0 false false Sat Jan 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 08 11:10:46 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 08 11:11:26 -0700 2009 Auld Lang Syne, A Red Red Rose, To a Mouse and so on, but there was much here that was new to me. Maybe because I 'did' Tam for 'O' level English Lit, maybe because I'm from Northern Ireland where some dialect words are the same, or maybe because I read for ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 04:40:59 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 06:49:16 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Nov 30 09:34:57 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 02 09:05:54 -0800 2007 more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Jul 17 17:24:07 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 17:24:07 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jul 07 04:18:07 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 04:18:13 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jun 12 07:49:02 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 07:49:02 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jun 05 17:18:31 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 17:18:31 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Jan 29 19:28:59 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 19:28:59 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Fri Mar 13 10:14:23 -0700 2009 Fri Jan 23 10:54:51 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 13 10:14:23 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jan 22 16:22:23 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 16:22:23 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Aug 19 08:02:51 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 27 10:11:44 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Oct 25 02:11:54 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 29 07:15:47 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2087371