Robert Burns
A Life
Published on 29. March 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
496 pages
978-0-14-139019-2 (ISBN)
Description
No poet has attracted such fanatical devotion as Robert Burns. He was, according to Lord Byron, a man of extremes: "tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - dirt and deity". Ian McIntyre's biography gives a careful analysis of Burns's songs and poetry and strips away the legend to explore what lies beneath. The figure that emerges is sharper, less idealized, perhaps more truly great, than in any previous biography.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Illustrations
16pp b&w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
531 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-139019-2 (9780141390192)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
1759; growing up; early manhood; love and poesy; guid black prent; tangent flight; rural rides; nymph and shepherd; the return of the native; the elbow of existence; dirty ponds and yeasty barrels; incautious placeman; and this is law I will maintain; low spirits and blue devils; the dying of the light; nihil nisi verum; apotheosis.