12 août 2016
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Karyn Wilson-Costa, « Of Bards and Troubadours: From rime couée to the ‘Burns Stanza’ », Ledizioni, ID : 10.4000/books.ledizioni.800
[…] In my flowerbedMost plants and shrubs aren’t native but have crossedSeas, seasons, different climates, to be hereThriving in shaded Scottish horticulture. Douglas Dunn (English, A Scottish Essay, 25-28) One such non-native plant that has flourished in the Scottish vernacular tradition is the Standard Habbie or ‘Burns Stanza’, the stave of some forty poems written by Scottish national bard Robert Burns (1759-1796) and used in some of his best-known and most-quoted verses. Although Robert B...