Dirt & Deity: A Life of Robert Burns

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HarperCollins, 1995 - 461 pàgines
Ian McIntyre's biography, published to mark the bicentenary of Burns's death, strips away myth and legend and explores what lies beneath. It is based meticulously on documentary and archival sources, and uses only the first-hand testimony of those who knew the man. It sets Burns in his historical context, and paints both his emotional life and his political views in vivid colours. On public matters he had no difficulty in holding simultaneously two views that were contradictory. In his private life he could be effortlessly in love with several women at the same time, appallingly cruel one moment, wonderfully tender the next. McIntyre offers a more extensive evaluation of Burns's songs and poetry than most previous biographers. He stresses the importance and quality of the satirical verse, as well as the haunting love poems for which Scotland's 'bard' is best known. In an illuminating final chapter, he examines the extraordinary ramifications assumed after the death of the poet by the Burns legend, a fantastical 'afterlife' bearing little resemblance to biographical reality.

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Growing Up
12
Early Manhood
28
Love and Poesy
47
Copyright

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Sobre l'autor (1995)

Ian McIntyre was born in Kincardineshire, the native county of Robert Burns's father. At Cambridge he read Modern Languages and was President of the Union. He was for nine years Controller of Radio 3 and is a former Associate Editor of 'The Times'. An occasional broadcaster and a regular contributor to 'The Times' book pages, he has most recently published 'The Expense of Glory', his highly praised life of the BBC's first Director-General, John Reith.

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