The Russet Coat - A critical study of Burn's Poetry and of its Background

This book considers Burn's work first in relation to its traditional Scots background and then in a wider European setting. She begins by setting Burns directly into his Ayrshire roots where as he says he wore the "russet coat" of the countryman before he is rescued from provincialism by his encounter with Edinburgh and the Scottish Highlands. The author questions whether the personality that wrote drinking-songs, really speaks for Scotland.

Christina Keith (1883-1956) was a Scottish academic and educted at Edinburgh and Cambridge Univerities before becoming a Don at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She was famously supposedly shipwrecked of the Greek coast.

There has been some damage to the cover boards partly covered up by the original dustcover which has some loss - significant at the front bottom and then around all the edges. It is now under a protective cover to prevent any further damage. Inside the pages are bright and clean throughout. The price reflects the state of the book.

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