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Title: The Life Of Robert Burns
Condition: New
Author: Catherine Carswell
Contributor: Tom Crawford (Introduction by)
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0862412927
EAN: 9780862412920
ISBN: 9780862412920
Edition: Main
Publisher: Canongate Books
Genre: Literary Criticism
Topic: Biography
Release Date: 01/01/2001
Description:

First published in 1930 to an unprecedented storm of protest, Catherine Carswell's The Life of Robert Burns remains the standard work on its subject.

Carswell deliberately shakes the image of Burns as a romantic hero - exposing the sexual misdemeanours, drinking bouts and waywardness that other, more reverential, biographies choose to overlook.

Catherine Carswell's real achievement is to bring alive the personality of a great man: passionate, hard-living, generous, melancholic, morbid and triumphant . . . the very archetype of the supreme creative artist.

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