The Bard: Robert Burns, a Biography

by Robert Crawford

Book Overview

No writer is more charismatic than Robert Burns. Wonderfully readable, The Bard catches Burns's energy, brilliance, and radicalism as never before. 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 . . . from raking of dung," and to his political enemies a "traitor." Drawing on a surprising number of untapped sources--from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691141711
• ISBN13: 9780691141718
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.1"