[These notes were made in 1989:]. Ballads and Sonnets appears to have been a "best of" based on earlier collections, of which this is one; there is considerable overlap. One of the benefits of getting a somewhat less "selected" selection is that, in the very redundancy of treatment of certain theme...
If one must give in to the temptation to classify minor poets by schools, Anderson is a Wordsworthian by temperament, a Burnsian by life history. His nom-de-plume was "Surfaceman," and he was a self-educated manual labourer with the railway in Scotland. Knowing this puts an unnatural patina on what ...
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