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This biography illuminates and explores the complexities and contradictions of Burns's character and personality, untangling the myth from the legend. Based on new evidence from 700 letters Burns wrote during his life, McIntyre concentrates on the circumstances of the writing of poetry itself, and paints a vivid picture of Burns's emotional and impulsive political views, the cruelty and gentleness of which he was capable, stressing the importance and the quality of the satirical poetry as well as the unforgettable love poetry immediately associated with his name.… (altro)
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Allen . . . has lent me a quantity of Burn's unpublished and never-to-be-published Letters. They are full of oaths and obscene songs. What an antitherical mind! -- tenderness, roughness -- delicacy, coarseness -- sentiment, sensuality -- soaring and grovelling -- dirt and deity -- all mixed up in that compound of inspired clay!'
Lord Byron Journal, 13th December 1813
Mair nonsense has been uttered in his name Than in ony's barrin' liberty and Christ
Hugh MacDiarmid A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, 1926
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In the memory of my Mother and Father and for wee Alistair
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At the end of John Ford's film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, the newspaper reporter says, 'When the legend conflicts with the facts -- print the legend.' (Preface)
The entry in the Ayr parish register is of the briefest:
Robert Burns, lawful son to William Burns, in Alloway, and Agnes Brown, his spouse, was born January 25, 1759; bapd. 26, by Mr. William Dalrymple. Witnesses: John Tennant and Jas. Young.
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A' that I hae endur'd, Lassie my dearie, Here in thy arms is cur'd Lassie lie near me.
This biography illuminates and explores the complexities and contradictions of Burns's character and personality, untangling the myth from the legend. Based on new evidence from 700 letters Burns wrote during his life, McIntyre concentrates on the circumstances of the writing of poetry itself, and paints a vivid picture of Burns's emotional and impulsive political views, the cruelty and gentleness of which he was capable, stressing the importance and the quality of the satirical poetry as well as the unforgettable love poetry immediately associated with his name.
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