Ballads and Sonnets
Format: hardcover
Publish date: 1879
Publisher: MacMillan & Co.
Pages no: 199
Edition language: English
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 ...