Burns was a poetic genius and his life was the stuff of legend. Compelling andtimely this book directs attention to a major poet who has been scandalouslyneglec... » 

Burns was a poetic genius and his life was the stuff of legend. Compelling andtimely this book directs attention to a major poet who has been scandalouslyneglected in scholarship outside of Scotland for many years.James ChandlerUniversity of Chicago There have been scores if not hundreds of biographies ofBurns. In an impressive feat Crawford has written one that really justifiesthe claim of providing a new original accountindeed I would say it is asclose to being definitive as we are likely to get.Ian Duncan University ofCalifornia Berkeley «