The Bard

Informationen zum Autor Robert Crawford is a poet, biographer, critic and literary historian who has published eight full collections of poetry and many prose books, including two major biographies of T.S. Eliot: Young Eliot and Eliot After The Waste Land. Emeritus Wardlaw Professor of Poetry at the University of St Andrews, he is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and a Foreign Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. His poetry has been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and he has won two Scottish Arts Council Book Awards as well as the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award. Klappentext No writer is more charismatic than Robert Burns. To his international admirers Burns was a genius, a hero, a warm-hearted friend; yet to the mother of one of his lovers he was a wastrel, and to his political enemies a 'traitor'. This biography presents the remarkable life, loves and struggles of this great poet. Zusammenfassung No writer is more charismatic than Robert Burns. To his international admirers Burns was a genius, a hero, a warm-hearted friend; yet to the mother of one of his lovers he was a wastrel, and to his political enemies a 'traitor'. This biography presents the remarkable life, loves and struggles of this great poet.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Crawford
• Publisher: Pimlico
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.01.2010
• EAN: 9781844139309
• ISBN: 978-1-84413-930-9
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Scotland, POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Biography: writers, Literary studies: poetry and poets