Poetical Works of Robert Burns

The underlying popularity of Robert Burns (1759-96) is a tribute to the remarkable personality of the man and the extraordinary richness of his poetry. He remains the best-loved and most-read poet of Scotland: an enduring national figurehead with an international reputation.

The reissue of this popular edition of Burns’s works presents the full range of his poetic achievements – displaying the lyric gifts and narrative energies beside the biting satire and compassionate generosity.

There are poems and songs, ballads and verses, lines, fragments, graces, epigrams and epitaphs, all supported by helpful glossaries, explanatory notes, a biographical introduction and a full index.

Chambers Poetical Works of Robert Burns displays the genius of Scotland’s greatest poet.