Robert Burns and pastoral [electronic resource] : poetry and improvement in late eighteenth-century Scotland / Nigel Leask. Leask, Nigel, 1958- Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 Criticism and interpretation. Pastoral poetry, English 18th century History and criticism. Agriculture in literature. Rural conditions in literature. Enlightenment Scotland. PR4338 821.6 22 Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record. This text restores the long marginalised Scottish poet Robert Burns to his rightful place as a major poet of the 18th century & Romantic period. It discusses his education as a farmer during the revolutionary period of 'improvement' in 18th-century Scotland, decision to write 'Scots pastoral' poetry, & influence on Wordsworth and Coleridge. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010. 2010. 2010 Text 1 online resource (xiv, 347 p.) : http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199572618.001.0001 eng Scotland.