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The Complete Works of Robert Burns Volume 4 By Robert Burns With musing-deep, astonish'd stare, I view'd the heavenly-seeming fair; A whisp'ring throb did witness bear Of kindred sweet, When with an elder sister's air She did me greet. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Excerpt from The Works of Robert Burns, Vol. 4 A few words of preface may be expected from the Editor in entering upon the second division of his twofold undertaking, as announced in the Prospectus to this "Library Edition of Burns." The complete writings of the author were to be presented in six volumes - one half of these to contain his Poems and Songs, arranged according to date of composition; and the remaining three volumes to comprise his Letters and other Prose productions, similarly arranged. These twin-sections, it was promised, would exhibit the bard as his own biographer, giving two parallel recitals of the shifting drama of his life - the one, in poetry and song, and the other, in his own powerful prose. The favourable notices by the public press, of the volumes already issued, encourage the hope that the execution of branch second of this undertaking will be no less appreciated. Dr Currie, taking a hint from Boswell's Johnson, hazarded the "experiment" of engaging the public interest by committing to the press about one hundred and twenty letters of Bums - "the recent and unpremeditated effusions of a man of genius." 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.

Excerpt from The Works of Robert Burns, Vol. 4 of 6: With His Life IT is intimated by Currie that Burns contributed songs liberally to Johnson's Musical Museum but, in the communications to which his name was not in general aflixed, he was less careful than in the lyrics written for the greater work of Thomson. Several of them he never intended to acknowledge, and others were found somewhat altered afterwards among his manuscripts. Cromek speaks more plainly Burns 'contributed, gratuitously, ' not less than one hundred and eighty-four original, altered, and collected songs. The Editor has seen one hundred and eighty transcribed by his own hand for the Museum. Both might have added that the pre faces to the second, third, and fourth volumes were written by the Poet, and that to his industry we owe many of the truly original airs with which the publi cation abounds. Of the one hundred and sixty lyrics which this volume contains, not more than seventy will be found in Currie's octavos; and it may be safely re-as serted that the reader will probably think. Many of these songs among the finest productions of the Poet's. 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.