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100 1 $aMcIntyre, Ian,$d1931-2014.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92004092
245 10 $aDirt & deity :$ba life of Robert Burns /$cIan McIntyre.
246 3 $aDirt and deity
260 $aLondon :$bHarperCollins,$c1995.
300 $axvi, 461 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aMaps on lining papers.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aIan 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.
520 8 $aIn his private life he could be effortlessly in love with several women at the same time, appallingly cruel one moment, wonderfully tender the next.
520 8 $aMcIntyre 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.
600 10 $aBurns, Robert,$d1759-1796.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78088009
600 14 $aBurns, Robert,$d1759-1796.
653 0 $aEnglish poetry
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