Lecture the theme: the romantic age in english literature (1780-1830). Representatives of romanticism

My Heart’s in the Highlands

My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here,

My heart’s in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer,
Chasing the wild deer and following the roe.
My heart’s in the Highlands wherever I go.

Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North,

The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth;
Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,
The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.

Farewell to the mountains, high covered with snow;

Farewell to the straths and green valleys below;
Farewell to the forests and high-hanging woods;
Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods.

My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here,

My heart’s in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer,
Chasing the wild deer and following the roe.
My heart’s in the Highlands wherever I go.

Muhammad Ali tarjimasi:

Qalbim mening tog‘larda… Qoyalar bo‘ylab
Yelday uchib boraman bug‘uni quvlab.
Hurkib qochgan ohuda yugurar ko‘zim…
Qalbim mening tog‘larda, yerdaman o‘zim.
Alvido, ey vatanim! Dovruqli Shimol,
Shon-sharaflar o‘lkasi, endi yaxshi qol!
Quvg‘indiman dunyoda, ammo bilurman:
Men bir umr farzanding bo‘lib qolurman!
Alvido, ey qor bosgan zalvorli tog‘lar,
Alvido, ey yam-yashil vodiylar, bog‘lar!
Alvido, ey yuztuban ketgan o‘rmonlar,
Alvido, o‘rmonlardan oqqan suronlar!
Qalbim mening tog‘larda… Qoyalar bo‘ylab
Yelday uchib boraman bug‘uni quvlab.
Hurkib qochgan ohuda yugurar ko‘zim.
Qalbim mening tog‘larda, yerdaman o‘zim!
In 1784 William Burns died. After the father’s death Robert and Gilbert worked hard, but the land gave poor crops, and the affairs of the family went from bad to worse. The young poet keenly felt the injustice of the world, where the best land, pastures, and woods belonged to the landlords. His indignation was expressed in his many verses, which became so dear to the hearts of the common people. (“Is There for Honest Poverty”, “John Barleycorn”, “Epistle to Dovie, a Brother Poet”, “Lines Written on a Bank-note”).
Robert was very young, when he understood that poverty could ruin his whole life: he had fallen in love with Jean Armour and was going to marry her, but the girl’s father did not want to have a poor peasant for his son-in-low. The fact that the young people loved each other did not alter his intention to marry Jean to a rich man. Seeing that there was no way for a poor peasant in Scotland, Burns decided to sail for Jamaica. To earn money, Robert decided to publish some of his poems. The little volume “Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect” was published in 1786. The book contained lyrical, humorous and satirical poems written in his earlier years, though some of his greatest satires such as “Address to the Unco’ Guid”, “Holy Willie’s Prayer” and “The Jolly Beggars” were not included into it. This volume opened for him the doors of fashionable society in Edinburgh, for a season, as the untutored ploughman poet, he was a lionized curiosity. The same year Robert Burns received an invitation from Edinburgh scholars, who praised his verses. The poet accepted the invitation, and went to Edinburgh. A new and enlarged edition of his poems was the result. Burns returned to his native village with money enough to buy a farm and marry Jean Armour. In 1791 he went bankrupt and was obliged to sell the farm and take a position as customs officer in the town of Dumfries. Sometimes Robert Burns is represented by critics as a child of the French Revolution. It is true but only partially. His best poems were written before that Revolution. He is rightly judged not against the wide expanse of European politics but against the sanctimonious hypocrisy of the religious, and against the social barriers that divided man from man. This equalitarian philosophy he discovered not in the text-books of political theory, but from his own observation, and he expressed it admirably, even recklessly, in one of the greatest of all his poems “The Jolly Beggars”.
Hard work destroyed the poet’s health. In 1796 he died in poverty at 37. After his death, his widow and children were left without a shilling. But the common Scottish people collected enough money to provide the widow with the sustenance for the rest of her life and give all his children an education.