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21%OFFRobert Crawford - The Bard - 9781844139309 - 9781844139309
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The Bard

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Description for The Bard paperback. No writer is more charismatic than Robert Burns. To his international admirers Burns was a genius, a hero, a warm-hearted friend; yet to the mother of one of his lovers he was a wastrel, and to his political enemies a 'traitor'. This biography presents the remarkable life, loves and struggles of this great poet. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 153 x 36. Weight in Grams: 624.

No writer is more charismatic than Robert Burns and no biographer has captured his energy, brilliance and radicalism as well as Robert Crawford does in The Bard. To his international admirers Burns 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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Pimlico
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844139309
SKU
9781844139309
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About Robert Crawford
Robert Crawford is a poet, biographer, critic and literary historian who has published eight full collections of poetry and many prose books, including two major biographies of T.S. Eliot: Young Eliot and Eliot After The Waste Land. Emeritus Wardlaw Professor of Poetry at the University of St Andrews, he is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the ... Read more

Reviews for The Bard
Magnificent... This is a fine biography, and it is difficult to imagine its being surpassed for a very long time
Alexander McCall Smith
Daily Telegraph
Crawford has delivered a living Burns: smart, arrogant, chivalrous, but also a strong poet to be confronted at every step of our written and sung culture. After this, we can't just take ... Read more

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