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Crowell Company. The Kilmarnock edition of the poetical works of Robert Burns: arranged inchronological order with new annotations, biographical notices, etc , John Menzies. The poetical works of Robert Burns: with all the correspondence , A.
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We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience and to collect anonymous information about how visitors use our website. You may turn cookies off below. Sn", will perceive with what uncommon penetration and sagacity this heaven taught ploughman, from his humble unlettered station, has looked upon men and manners. But, if we consider the ignorance and fanaticism of the lower class of the people in the country where these poems were written, a fanaticism of that pernicious sort which sets faith in opposition to good works, the fallacy and danger of which a mind so enlightened a s our poet's could not but perceive, we shall not look upon his lighter muse as the enemy of religion of which in several places he expresses the justest sentiments though she has been somewhat unguarded in her ridicule of hypocrisy.
When we reflect on his rank in life, the habits to which he must have been subject, and the society in which he must have mixed, we regret perhaps more than wonder that delicacy should be so often offended in perusing a volume in which there is so much to interest and please us.
That honest pride and independence of soul which are sometimes the muse's only dower, break forth on every occasion in his works. It may be then, I shall wrong his feelings while I indulge my own, in calling the attention of the public to his situation and circumstances. That condition, humble as it was, in which he found content, and wooed the muse, might not be deemed uncomfortable; but grief And misfortunes have reached him there; and one or two of his poems hint, what I have learned from some of his countrymen, that he has been obliged to form the resolution of leaving his native land to seek under a West Indian clime, that shelter and support which Scotland has denied him.
But I trust means may be found to prevent this resolution from taking place; and to do my country no more than justice when I suppose her ready to stretch out her hand to cherish and retain this native poet, whose 'wood notes wild' posssess so much excellence. To reparing the wrongs of suffering or neglected merit, to call forth genius from the obscurity in which it had pined indignant, and place it where it may profit of delight the world; these are exertions which give to wealth an enviable superiority, to greatness and to patronage a laudable pride.
His occupation is that of a common ploughman, and his life has hitherto been spent in struggling with poverty. But all the rigours of fortune have not been able to repress the frequent efforts of his lively and vigorous imagination.
Some of these poems are of a serious cast, but the strain which seems most natural to the author is the sportive and humorous. It is to be regretted that the Scottish Dialect, in which these poems are written, must obscure the native beauties with which they appear to abound and renders the same unintelligible to an English reader. Should it, however, prove true that the author has been taken under the patronage of a great lady in Scotland, and that a celebrated Professor has interested himself in the cultivation of his talents, there is reason to hope that his distinguished genius may yet be exerted in such a manner as to afford more generous delight.
In the meantime we must admire the genuine enthusiasm of his untutored muse, and bestow the tribute of just applause on one whose name will be transmitted to posterity with honour. His subjects are not, as might have been expected, confined to the objects which surrounded him, he is satirical as well as pastoral, and humorous as well as pathetic. These poems being "chiefly in the Scottish dialect" it must necessarily confine their beauties to a small circle of readers; however, the author has given good specimens of his skill in English.
The following stanza is not only very elegant, but highly poetical. It is marvellous that such true though somewhat stinted praise was given in that 'elegant' age to one like Burns, whose mission was to abolish the shamming and affected style of poetry then accepted as the only recognised standard.
This ingredient will give a gush to very indifferent fare and lend a flavour to the produce of the home brewed vintage. Whatever excites the jaded appetite of an epicure will be prized, and a red herring from Greenock or Dunbar will be reckoned a delice.
From this propensity in human nature a musical child, a rhyming milkwoman, a learned pig, or a Russian poet will "strut their hour upon the stage", and gain the applause of the moment.
From this cause, and this alone, Stephen Duck, the thresher, and many other nameless names have glittered and disappeared like those bubbles of the atmosphere which are called falling stars. Although he is by no means such a poetical prodigy as some of his malicious friends have represented, he has a genuine title to the attention and approbation of the public, as a natural though not a legitimate, son of the muses.
In his serious poems we can trace imitations of almost every English author of celebrity but his humour is entirely his own. His "Address to the Deil Devil ", "The Holy Fair" a country sacrament , and his "Epistle" in which he disguises an armour under the veil of partridge shooting, are his masterpieces in this line; and happily in these instances his humour is neither local nor transient, for the devil, the world and the flesh will always keep their ground.
Revolving his obscure situation, in which there was nothing to animate pursuit or gratify ambition, comparing his humble lot with the more flourishing conditions of mercantile adventures, and vowing to renounce the unprofitable trade of verse for ever: not one of the nine muses, celebrated in fiction, but the real muse of every inspired poet, the Genius of his native district and frequented scenes. This is an elegant and happy imagination. The form of Nature that first met his enamoured eyes is the muse of every inspired poet.
The mountains, the forests and the streams are the living volumes that impregnate his fancy and kindle the fire of genius. The address of this rural deity to him marks the character and describes the feelings of a poet:.
A mixture of the solemn and burlesque can never be agreeable. It is written in the stanza of Spenser, which probably our bard acquired from Thomson's "Castle of Indolence" and Beattie's "Minstrel".
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