Description
Robbie Burns wrote some of the loveliest and most moving poetry CLIPPER
of his or any other age. A farmer’s son, he was lionised by the
literary society of his day, but neglected by them when he died,
only 37 years old. In the 250 years since his birth, his reputation
has varied between that of immoral drunkard and the poster-boy
of Scottish tourism, but his words helped revive the folk tradition
and prefigured the Romantic movement. Ranging from
libertarianism, satire, love songs, description, meditations, polemics
and portraits, this selection shows the extraordinary range of
Burns’s inimitable genius.