Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns

The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns treats the extensive writing of and culture surrounding Scotland''s national ''bard''. Robert Burns (1759-96) was a producer of lyrical verse, satirical poetry, in English and Scots, a song-writer and song-collector, a writer of bawdry, journals, commonplace books and correspondence. Sculpting his own image, his untutored rusticity was a sincere persona as much ...