The Canongate Burns. Robert Burns
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Название: The Canongate Burns

Автор: Robert Burns

Издательство: Ingram

Жанр: Языкознание

Серия: Canongate Classics

isbn: 9781847674456

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СКАЧАТЬ Luggies14 three are ranged; dishes

      And ev’ry time great care is taen taken

      To see them duly changed:

      Auld uncle John, wha wedlock’s joys, old, who

      Because he gat the toom dish thrice, got, empty

      He heav’d them on the fire

      In wrath that night.

      Wi’ merry sangs, an’ friendly cracks, songs, conversation

      245 I wat they did na weary; know, not

      And unco tales, an’ funnie jokes, wondrous

      Their sports were cheap an’ cheary:

      Set a’ their gabs a-steerin; tongues, wagging

      250 Syne, wi’ a social glass o’ strunt, whisky

      They parted aff careerin off/away

      Fu’ blythe that night.

      

      Mackay’s edition omits the poet’s detailed notes to this work. They serve to assist the general reader in understanding the superstitious rural beliefs associated with Halloween. Due to the broad Scots language of the poem and its description of various superstitious rituals associated with peasant belief, much of the poem is unintelligible without the poet’s notes as in the Kilmarnock edition. Kinsley (no. 73) gives the notes but without indicating that they are Burns’s. The prose explanations of Burns reveal another example of his extraordinary talent for turning prose into poetry within the body of Halloween.