false 6122374 1 <p>No writer is more charismatic than Robert Burns. Wonderfully readable, <i>The Bard</i> 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.</p><p> 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.</p><p> Written with accessible elan and nuanced attention to Burns's poems and letters, <i>The Bard</i> 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.</p> 6300702 25 1 2009 The Bard: Robert Burns, A Biography total:4|5:1|4:2|3:0|2:1|1:0| 4 15 15 4 2 0 false false Fri Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 22:23:11 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 11:16:11 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Aug 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jan 21 12:01:34 -0800 2009 Thu Sep 03 14:05:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jan 28 08:18:43 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 08:19:04 -0800 2009 ]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat May 16 13:25:13 -0700 2009 Sat May 16 13:27:50 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Nov 10 08:18:39 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 08:18:39 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 12:45:05 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 12:53:51 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Aug 18 07:48:12 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 11:27:47 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jul 17 15:07:06 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 15:07:06 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Feb 21 18:37:44 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 21 18:37:44 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Feb 19 12:51:18 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 12:51:18 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Feb 15 20:32:20 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 20:32:20 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jan 26 05:24:39 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 05:24:39 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jan 25 18:53:38 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 18:53:38 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jan 23 08:18:40 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 08:18:50 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jan 22 08:05:47 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 08:06:18 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6122374