Great Regulars: But while dialect gives the impression

of authenticity, it is the sustained energy of the line, the syntax and the argument that prove the impression is rooted in the real thing. There is a personality to Burns's tone, and an energy to the syntax, that seem literally physical. This is not only a matter of diction. The very forms he favoured with the riches of his native language--the song, and the verse-epistle--connect directly to the voice.

from Carol Rumens: The Guardian: Books blog: A Poet's Welcome to his Love-Begotten Daughter by Robert Burns
also Carol Rumens: The Guardian: Books blog: The Romantic poets: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt by Lord Byron
also Carol Rumens: The Guardian: Books blog: The Romantic poets: Nutting by William Wordsworth
also Carol Rumens: The Guardian: Books blog: The Romantic poets: On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer by John Keats

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