ALAN DENT - Burns in His Time

London England, Nelson, 1966. First Edition, Binding: Cloth, Elizabeth Corsellis Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hardback Hardback. The author's portrait of Robert Burns is set against a landscape of Ayrshire as it was in the second half of the eighteenth century - the harsh unfertile soil out of which the poet struggled hard to make a living as a farmer. At the same time he contemns the sloth of the English reader, as distinct from the Scottish, who persistently declines any attempt to understand the dialect in which so many - and indeed the best - of the poems are writtent. In support of his theories he quotes copiously and points out that many of his citations - in verse as well as porse - comes from not easily accessible sources. Illustrated. 162 pp. (.