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The Life of Robert Burns
by Catherine Carswell

"Catherine Carswell's life of Robert Burns is still, apart from Burns' own account, the best" - The Observer (London)

Published in 1939 to a storm of protest, Carswell deliberately shakes the image of Burns as a romantic hero -- exposing the sexual misdemeanors, drinking bouts and waywardness. Her real achievement is to bring to life the personality of a great man: passionate, hard-living, generous, melancholic, morbid and triumphant .. the very archetype of the supreme creative artist.

Life/Nonfiction * 415 pp * ISBN 0 86241 292 7

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