Love, Labour, and Liberty: The Eighteenth Century Scottish Lyric

by Thomas Crawford

173 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1976

About the author

Thomas (Tom) Crawford (1920 - 2014) was a Scottish literary scholar, critic and editor. He was educated at Dunfermline High School and Edinburgh University.

Crawford spent the first part of his academic career in New Zealand at the University of Auckland. He returned to Scotland in 1965, and after a brief spell as Lecturer in English at Edinburgh, moved to Aberdeen where he became Senior Lecturer and subsequently Reader in English Literature until his retiral in 1985. He was among the first generation of scholars who devoted their entire careers to the study of Scottish Literature. His Burns: a Study of the Poems and Songs appeared originally in 1960, while later works include Love, Labour, and Liberty (1976), Society and the Lyric (1980), Boswell, Burns and the French Revolution (1990) and Volume One of The Correspondence of James Boswell and William Johnson Temple 1756-1795 (1997).