{"product_id":"the-bard-robert-crawford-9780691141718","title":"The Bard: Robert Burns, a Biography","description":"\u003cp\u003eNo writer is more charismatic than Robert Burns. Wonderfully readable, \u003ci\u003eThe Bard\u003c\/i\u003e catches Burns's energy, brilliance, and radicalism as never before. To his international admirers he was a genius, a hero, a warm-hearted friend; yet to the mother of one of his lovers he was a wastrel, to a fellow poet he was \"sprung . . . from raking of dung,\" and to his political enemies a \"traitor.\" Drawing on a surprising number of untapped sources--from rediscovered poetry by Burns to manuscript journals, correspondence, and oratory by his contemporaries--this new biography presents the remarkable life, loves, and struggles of the great poet. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Inspired by the American and French Revolutions and molded by the Scottish Enlightenment, Burns was in several senses the first of the major Romantics. With a poet's insight and a shrewd sense of human drama, Robert Crawford outlines how Burns combined a childhood steeped in the peasant song-culture of rural Scotland with a consummate linguistic artistry to become not only the world's most popular love poet but also the controversial master poet of modern democracy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Written with accessible elan and nuanced attention to Burns's poems and letters, \u003ci\u003eThe Bard\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of an extraordinary man fighting to maintain a sly sense of integrity in the face of overwhelming pressures. This incisive biography startlingly demonstrates why the life and work of Scotland's greatest poet still compel the attention of the world a quarter of a millennium after his birth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Crawford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691141711\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691141718\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/18\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.50w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2009 pg. 35\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker (The)\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/09\/2009 pg. 109\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/27\/2009 pg. 18\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/05\/2009 pg. 47\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooks \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2010 pg. 36","brand":"Robert Crawford","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46420219855103,"sku":"9780691141718","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_aae022a5-c6d7-4042-9184-c8936c6926c0.jpg?v=1734633988","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-bard-robert-crawford-9780691141718","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}