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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.