Robert Burns : a life
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Robert Burns : a life
(Classic Penguin, . Classic biography)
Penguin, 2001, c1995
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Dirt & deity
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Note
Originally published as: Dirt & deity. London : HarperCollins, 1995
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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