ARGONAUT BOOKS

Magnificent... This is a fine biography, and it is difficult to imagine its being surpassed for a very long timeDaily Telegraph - Alexander McCall SmithCrawford has delivered a living Burns: smart, arrogant, chivalrous, but also a strong poet to be confronted at every step of our written and sung culture. After this, we can't just take Burns down from the shelf this one night a yearObserver - Brian MortonRobert Crawford gives us a sympathetic portrait of a self-fashioning Burns who has to imagine himself as a bard - a poet not only in word but in act - in order to become one. Crawford's Burns,...Read More