Reading Robert Burns

Reading Robert Burns
Author: Carol McGuirk
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317317351

Robert Burns is Scotland’s greatest cultural icon. Yet, despite his continued popularity, critical work has been compromised by the myths that have built up around him. McGuirk focuses on Burns’s poems and songs, analysing his use of both vernacular Scots and literary English to provide a unique reading of his work.