Currie md james (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 2nd Edition. This book has some foxing, detached front and back cover and the pages have gold around the edges.

A New Edition, four volumes complete in one: with many additional poems and songs, and an enlarged and corrected glossary and an additional titlepage to the Poetical Works, 8vo. (223x158mm), pp: xv+180+243,[1] leaf of plates, portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, frontis & edges foxed, occ. foxing throughout, bound in half morocco, marbled boards & endpapers, spine with gilt ruled raised bands, gilt title, spine compartments, sound, tight and very good. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. A New Edition, in Four Volumes. 4 vols.: xii, 370; xxiv, [3], 476; xvi, 416; xxvii, [2], 412 p. 22 cm. Diced calf leather. Respined. Hinges repaired internally. Light foxing. Closed tear in front free endpaper of vol. 4 and repair in its rear pastedown. After Robert Burns' early death in 1796, his friends agreed that a biography of the poet should be written, the proceeds of which would help to support his widow and young sons. To this end they selected Dr. James Currie, a medical man from Liverpool. Dr. Currie had few literary credentials apart from his admiration of the poet's work and had met Burns only once. At the time, however, those who knew Burns better were unwilling to take on the role of biographer and the primary aim of the publication was to raise money for the poet's family. Some critics feel that Currie's treatment of his subject raised misconceptions about Burns' life which survive to this day. The doctor chose to put a moral slant on the life of the poet and lecture readers on the consequences of drunkenness and excess. However, much of the biography takes the form of letters written by the poet's friends and relatives and these provide a less judgmental view of his life. While Burns is portrayed as an imperfect genius, the poetry in these volumes speaks for itself.…