![]() ![]() Robert Crawford outlines how Burns combined a childhood steeped in the peasant song culture of rural Scotland with a consummate linguistic artistry to become not only the world s most popular love poet but also the controversial master poet of modern democracy. Drawing on a surprising variety of untapped sources from rediscovered poetry by Burns to manuscript journals, correspondence, interviews and oratory by his contemporaries this new biography presents the remarkable life, loves, and struggles of the great poet. To his international admirers he was a genius, a hero, a warm hearted friend yet to the mother of one of his lovers he was a wastrel to a fellow poet he was sprung…įrom raking of dung and to his political enemies a traitor. Wonderfully readable, The Bard catches Burns’s energy, brilliance and radicalism as never before. No writer is more charismatic than Robert Burns. ![]()
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