Robert Burns
Subtitle: The Patriot Bard
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
Published: May 19, 2009
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781845964122
Subjects: Biographies & Memoirs -- Arts & Literature -- Authors; Biographies & Memoirs -- Historical; History -- Europe -- England; History -- World
Description: "This new biography of Scotland's national poet explodes the Burns myth, replacing the ram-stam lad of popular cliche with the real, living Burns. He is revealed as a Scottish patriot of the heart, an idealist who wished for 'Freedom and Liberty' for his beloved Scotland, but also a man who was pragmatically a British patriot who risked his life for democratic reform."--Jacket.