%0 Journal Article
%T The Poetry of Robert Burns: ¡°A Melancholy not unallied to Mirth.¡±
%A Karyn COSTA
%J E-rea : Revue ¨¦lectronique d¡¯¨¦tudes sur le Monde Anglophone
%D 2006
%I 
%R 10.4000/erea.303
%X When Allan Cunningham concluded his 1834 Life of Burns with this critical judgement of Robert Burns¡¯s poetry he was in fact summing up the schizophrenic nature of the Scottish character and identity. Scottish duality is still prevalent in the Highland-Lowland divide, the Catholic-Protestant rivalry, the linguistic differences Scots versus Gaelic, the English and Scottish competition for power, the past battling with the present in the search for a national identity free from myth and a sense ...
%U http://erea.revues.org/303