How Does It Add Up?
Neal Ascherson: The Burns Cult, 12 March 2009
The Bard: Robert Burns, a Biography
by Robert Crawford.
Cape, 466 pp., £20, January 2009,978 0 224 07768 2 Show More
by Robert Crawford.
Cape, 466 pp., £20, January 2009,
“... so much before he died at the age of 37. Not all that he produced was good. The other day, Jeremy Paxman dismissed his work as ‘sentimental doggerel’. Some of it was. Of the poems, as opposed to the songs, maybe only a dozen are really successful. But the songs, based on airs which he collected and words which he composed or modified, are and ... ”