TY  - BOOK
AU  - Crawford,Robert
TI  - The Bard: Robert Burns, A Biography 
SN  - 9781400832842
U1  - 821.6 
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Aberdeenshire
KW  - Adams, John
KW  - Aiken, Andrew Hunter
KW  - Alexander, Wilhelmina
KW  - Alloway
KW  - American Revolution
KW  - Armour, Jean
KW  - Ayr
KW  - Ayrshire
KW  - Bannockburn
KW  - Barskimming
KW  - Belles Lettres
KW  - Birmingham
KW  - Bonhams auctioneers
KW  - Cabinet of Genius
KW  - Calvinism
KW  - Carleton, General
KW  - Catholicism
KW  - Clackmannanshire
KW  - Creech, William
KW  - Dalquhatswood
KW  - Dalrymple
KW  - Dumfresshire Volunteers
KW  - Edinburgh Magazine
KW  - Edinburgh
KW  - Excise service
KW  - Farming
KW  - Fergusson, Robert
KW  - France and the French
KW  - Freemasons
KW  - French Revolution
KW  - Galloway
KW  - Glasgow Magazine
KW  - Hamilton, Gavin
KW  - Hanoverians
KW  - Ipecacuanha
KW  - Irvine
KW  - Jacobites
KW  - Jamaica
KW  - Keith, Earl Marischal
KW  - Kilmarnock
KW  - Lawrie, Archibald
KW  - London Magazine
KW  - McLehose, Agnes
KW  - Newmilns
KW  - Nithsdale
KW  - Ochterhouse
KW  - Peacock, Mary
KW  - Pope, Alexander
KW  - Rainie, Agnes
KW  - Ramsay, John of Ochtertyre
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Reading Burns's Poems --; Introduction --; I. First an' Foremost --; II. Wits --; III. Belles --; IV. Bard --; V. New World --; VI. Rhinoceros --; VII. Staunch Republicans --; Abbreviations --; Notes --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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 rediscovered poetry by Burns to manuscript journals, correspondence, and oratory by his contemporaries--this new biography presents the remarkable life, loves, and struggles of the great poet. Inspired by the American and French Revolutions and molded by the Scottish Enlightenment, Burns was in several senses the first of the major Romantics. 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 biography startlingly demonstrates why the life and work of Scotland's greatest poet still compel the attention of the world a quarter of a millennium after his birth
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