Maggie, el ultimo elefante en Alaska[Maggie: Alaska's Last Elephant]

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: English Folk-Song Collectors, Scottish Folk-Song Collectors, Welsh Folk-Song Collectors, Sabine Baring-Gould, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Robert Burns, Percy Grainger, Cecil Sharp, A. L. Lloyd, Peter Warlock, Lucy Broadwood, Ernest John Moeran, Joseph Ritson, Thomas Percy, Margaret Bennett, George Butterworth, David Lewiston, Hamish Henderson, William B. Sandys, Meredydd Evans, Henry Balfour Gardiner, Frank Kidson, Anne Gilchrist, William Chappell, Kate Lee, Steve Roud. Excerpt: Robert Burns (25 January 1759 21 July 1796) (also known as Rabbie Burns, Scotland's favourite son, the Ploughman Poet, the Bard of Ayrshire and in Scotland as simply The Bard) was a Scottish poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in English and a "light" Scots dialect, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland. He also wrote in standard English, and in these pieces, his political or civil commentary is often at its most blunt. He is regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic movement and after his death became a great source of inspiration to the founders of both liberalism and socialism. A cultural icon in Scotland and among the Scottish Diaspora around the world, celebration of his life and work became almost a national charismatic cult during the 19th and 20th centuries, and his influence has long been strong on Scottish literature. In 2009 he was voted by the Scottish public as being the Greatest Scot, through a vote run by Scottish television channel STV. As well as making original compositions, Burns also collected folk songs from across Scotland, often revising or adapting them. His poem (and... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=21222213