Роберт Бернс Стихотворения Шотландские баллады в переводах С. Маршака

"Robert Burns is rightly called the great poet of Scotland. In his homeland, his birthday is celebrated as a national holiday, his poems and songs entered the home of every Scottish family. Enthusiastic admirers of Burns, as one of his biographers writes, can be found "and among shepherds of Australia and among the miners of California and Columbia, "where emigrants found themselves who left their homeland in search of happiness, taking with them the love of their poet. Burns' poetry immediately attracts clarity, simplicity, melodiousness; he is a singer, and everything that comes out from under his pen, akin to a song, whether it be a poetic love song, a historical ballad, a hymn to nature or a barleycorn, or the famous cantata "The Merry Beggars". Burns wrote about his people, from which he came, and for his people, for which he deservedly enjoys his love to this day. "