# Selected Poems

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- Book: [Selected Poems](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-shakespeare/selected-poems) ([Selected Poems.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-shakespeare/selected-poems.md))
- Authors: [William Shakespeare](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-shakespeare)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4042-382-2
- Pages: 368
- Published: 2005-01-17
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

This selection gives equal weight to the two aspects of Robert Burns's reputation, as a lyricist and as a much-loved Scottish poet. Placing works in probable order of composition, it includes lyrics to his most well known songs, such as the nostalgic Auld Lang Syne, the romantic A Red, Red Rose, and the patriotic Scots What Hae. As a poet, Burns wrote with deceptive simplicity and imaginative sympathy, and demonstrated enormous range - from comic dramatic monologues such as Holy Willie's Prayer, which mocks hypocrisy, to narratives including the celebrated Tam O' Shanter, about the ghostly visions of a drunk.