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The Bard: Robert Burns, a Biography
by Crawford, Robert
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- ISBN 10
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The Bard: Robert Burns, a Biography, Crawford, Robert. Published by Jonathan Cape, UK, 2009. Signed, dated and inscribed by author to title page. 8vo up to 9½" tall., xii, 465pp. with frontis-portrait, bibliographical references, and index. Black boards with gilt titles. Volume is in fine condition; dustjacket has light top edge ruffling and is otherwise fine.
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.
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Robert Crawford is a poet and anthologist, and Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.
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- Title
- The Bard: Robert Burns, a Biography
- Author
- Crawford, Robert
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0224077686
- ISBN 13
- 9780224077682
- Publisher
- Random House UK
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 2009-02-02
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- MEMOIR AND BIO; POETRY AND DRAMA;
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