Robert Burns (1759-96) remains Scotland's greatest poet, songwriter
and song-collector. Regarded by Keats and Wordsworth as a morning
star of the Romantic Movement in verse, he was also admired by
Beethoven and Haydn who set accompaniments for many of his songs. A
farmer turned excise officer, he attracted censure for his
outspoken advocacy of electoral and parliamentary reform, yet he
died a serving soldier in a Volunteer Regiment during the wars with
post-revolutionary France. The Burns Encyclopaedia was first
published in 1959 by Maurice Lindsay and this is the fourth edition
- the first since 1980. All aspects of the poet's biography and
literary output are covered, as are his correspondents and
contemporaries, many of the latter set against the backdrop of
Enlightenment Edinburgh. The present edition has been thoroughly
revised and updated in the light of contemporary scholarship. It
will be an essential vade mecum for all who are interested in
Robert Burns - and in the literary, social and political ambience
not just of Scotland but of the UK in the latter decades of the
eighteenth century.
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