The Reception of Robert Burns in Europe

Murray Pittock

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9781441170316
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780567629197
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: English Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Robert Burns (1759 –1796), Scotland's national poet and pioneer of the Romantic Movement, has been hugely influential across Europe and indeed throughout the world. Burns has been translated seven times as often as Byron, with 21 Norwegian translations alone recorded since 1990; he was translated into German before the end of his short life, and was of key importance in the vernacular politics of central and Eastern Europe in the nineteenth century. This collection of essays by leading international scholars and translators traces the cultural impact of Burns' work across Europe and includes bibliographies of major translations of his work in each country covered, as well as a publication history and timeline of his reception on the continent.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Timeline of the European Reception of Robert Burns, 1795–2012
• Introduction: ‘The mair they talk, I’m kend the better’: Burns and Europe
• 1 Lost in Translation: Robert Burns in Germany
• 2 German-Language Reception of Robert Burns in Austria
• 3 The Reception of Robert Burns in Switzerland
• 4 From Bard to Boor: The Critical Reception of Robert Burns in France
• 5 ‘Compar’d to these, Italian trills are tame’: A Century of Robert Burns in Italy, 1869–1972
• 6 Robert Burns and Spanish Letters
• 7 The Reception of Robert Burns in Russia
• 8 The Reception of Robert Burns in Ukrainian Culture
• 9 ‘His voice resonated for the longest time in our literature’: Burns and ‘popular poetry’ in Nineteenth-century Hungary
• 10 Czech Translations of Burns: Constructing National Identity?
• 11 The Reception of Robert Burns in Poland
• 12 Robert Burns’s Reception in Slovenia
• 13 Burns in Norwegian: A Man of Opposition
• 14 The Reception of Robert Burns in Music
• Bibliography
• Index