Robert Burns
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers with French reading ability who study Burns's reception history
- Those interested in comparative literature and the style of French academic criticism
- Readers who already know Burns's life and major works and want to go further
- Scholars or students who need public-domain French materials for research
Not a good fit for
- Readers with no French who want a Chinese biography of Burns
- Complete beginners with no knowledge of Burns and his era
- General readers expecting light, story-driven reading
Reading tips
- Review a few of Burns's major poems before entering the critical biography
- Note the author's French critical terminology and argumentative approach while reading
- Check and supplement the background against English or Chinese materials on Burns
- Read chapter by chapter and briefly note the main points after each
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Auguste Angellier (1847–1911) was a French poet and scholar of English literature. He devoted sustained attention to the Scottish poet Robert Burns, and his biography Robert Burns offered the French-speaking world an early systematic account of Burns's life and work, combining biographical narrative with poetic analysis and giving readers a fuller picture of Burns and his Scottish context. Angellier also wrote poetry of his own, leaving a collection of verse that, though modest in quantity, reflects his literary sensibility. The two works held in this catalogue both concern Burns, which indicates where his research interests lay. On the whole, Angellier combined the roles of poet and scholar: he practised literary feeling through his own verse and introduced English literature through biography and criticism. Because public information is limited, details of his life and the full range of his writings await further study; this sketch rests mainly on his representative work and his chosen subject matter.
