1821 4 Vols The Works of Robert Burns: Including His Letters to Clarinda, and the Whole of His Suppressed Poems; With an Essay on His Life, Genius, and Character

Description

Leather Binding, Rebound

Rebound in a straight grained morocco binding, with gilt decoration. 

This is charming four volume set, a comprehensive collection of the poet’s writings, combining his celebrated poems and songs with personal letters, suppressed poems, and a biographical essay. 

This set contains:

Volume I, featuring a frontispiece portrait of Robert Burns engraved by M. N. Bate. This volume includes the Essay on His Life and Genius along with a selection of poems, chiefly Scottish, tales, miscellanies, sacred pieces, and ejaculations.

Volume II contains Burns' ballads, songs, epigrams, epitaphs, satires, elegies, and epistles.

Volume III collects his letters to various correspondents, including Sir John Sinclair, Gilbert Burns, Mr. Cunningham, Bishop Geddes, Mr. John Murdoch, and others.

Volume IV features his correspondence with George Thomson and Clarinda, along with an addenda of fragments, epistles, songs, and additional contents.

Agnes Nancy Maclehose is “Clarinda” in their storied correspondence, with Burns adopting the pseudonym “Sylvander.” This correspondence is central to understanding his more personal, romantic style, including poems like “Ae Fond Kiss.”