No writer is more charismatic than Robert Burns and no biographer
has captured his energy, brilliance and radicalism as well as
Robert Crawford does in The Bard. To his international admirers
Burns 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...from raking of dung', and to his political enemies a
'traitor'. 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. With a poet's insight and a shrewd sense of human
drama, 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. Written with accessible elan and nuanced attention to
Burns's poems and letters, The Bard is the story of an
extraordinary man fighting to maintain a sly sense of integrity in
the face of overwhelming pressures. This incisive, intelligent
biography startlingly demonstrates why the life and work of
Scotland's greatest poet still compels the attention of the world a
quarter of a millennium after his birth.
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