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The Bard (Hardcover)

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"[Robert Burns] shares with great hip-hop artists a genius for catchy, sexy, and memorable rhymes gloriously liberated from the hegemony of standard English."

"Crawford implicitly liberates the poet from his place in the museum of Scotland, and suggests that his work has the power to become once again a vital presence in the life of the people."

"[Burns's] lines may reveal technical mastery of a very high order, but there is a naturalness in them that makes us feel that we are being talked to directly by a man right there at our side as we read. And the soul that he reveals in his words is a warm and human one--there is no pomposity, no reserve, no striving for effect. What we do find is love, in generous quantities, and a sparkling sense of fun."

"[An] outstanding book....[T]his....searching and sensitive biography....show[s] why [Burns's] poetry is worth literary examination, as well as how it is illuminated by his life."

Publisher's note

No writer is more charismatic than Robert Burns. To his 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'. This biography presents the life, loves and struggles of the great poet.

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Although few in America know the first thing about the life of Scottish poet Robert Burns, nearly all of us can be heard annually singing his most famous composition. To his fellow Scots, however, the man who wrote "Auld Lang Syne" remains a revered mythical figure, and his birthday is celebrated as a national holiday. Robert Crawford's new biography reveals the reasons behind Burns's lasting influence as a Scottish icon. Crawford depicts Burns as a vivacious rambler, who celebrated life and liberty in his verse, and practiced the arts of love with a succession of lucky lasses. But his first love was for language, and Crawford's incisive analysis of Burns's work reveals THE BARD's exceptional gift for inventive rhymes and nuanced lyrics. He was truly a Romantic, not just in literature, but in life.

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 variety of untapped sources -- from rediscovered poetry by Burns to manuscript journals, correspondence, interviews and oratory by his contemporaries -- this new biography presents the remarkable life, loves, and struggles of the great poet. 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 demonstrates why Scotland's greatest poet still compels the attention of the world.

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