Robert Burns: Poet and Revolutionist
Author(s): Harry Holland
Poetry | Educational Resources
Harry Holland (1868-1933), militant socialist and the NZ Labour Party's first leader, mixed politics with a passion for poetry. He loved the works of Burns, and drew on his life and verse as inspiration and example. Amid a hectic life fighting for left-wing causes, Holland found time to work on a study of the Scottish poet, to bring Burns to a working-class New Zealand audience. This edition makes Holland's study - and a selection of his own verses - accessible to a new generation of readers and students, and shows us a new aspect of the culture of the early labour movement in this country. With its inflammatory chemistry of the passionate poet and the radical politician, this is a stirring and delightful book.
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Editor Dougal McNeill teaches English at Victoria University. He is the author, with Charles Ferrall, of Writing the 1926 General Strike: Literature, Culture, Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and is an editor of Socialist Review.
General Fields
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- : Steele Roberts Aotearoa Ltd
- : Steele Roberts & Associates Ltd
- : August 2016
- : 208mm X 135mm
- : New Zealand
- : books
Special Fields
- : Harry Holland
- : Harry Holland
- : colour & b/w illustrations
- : colour & b/w illustrations
- : 139
- : 139
- : 821.6
- : 821.6
- : Paperback
- : Paperback