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Burns the Radical: Poetry and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland.(Heaven-Taught Fergusson': Robert Burns's Favourite Scottish Poet)(Book Review)

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From: The Modern Language Review
Date: 20051001
Author:Riach, Alan

Burns the Radical: Poetry and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland. By LIAM MCILVANNEY. East Linton: Tuckwell. 2002. x+262 pp. 16.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-86232-177-9.

Heaven-Taught Fergusson': Robert Burns's Favourite Scottish Poet. Ed. by ROBERT CRAWFORD. East Linton: Tuckwell. 2003. xii+239 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-86232-201-5.

Both these books are important contributions not only to the reassessment of their subjects but to the reconfiguration of Scottish literature in the academic canon. They are required reading, for their careful forms of ...

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