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Robert Burns in Podcasts

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Robert Burns was a Scottish poet and lyricist, celebrated for his contributions to Scottish literature.

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Narrative Poems: ‘Tam o’ Shanter’ by Robert Burns and ‘Peter Grimes’ by George Crabbe

Burns asked that when Captain Grose came to do the Ayrshire section of his book, he should include the ruined Kirk at Alloway, which was, as it happens, the burial ground of Burns's father.

Close Readings
Narrative Poems: ‘Tam o’ Shanter’ by Robert Burns and ‘Peter Grimes’ by George Crabbe

I have never seen a man of more original observation, anecdote, and remark, Burns wrote to his wealthy admirer, Francis Dunlop, or, as he put it rather more characteristically in a poem, a fine, fat, fudgel-white, or stature short, but genius bright.

Close Readings
Narrative Poems: ‘Tam o’ Shanter’ by Robert Burns and ‘Peter Grimes’ by George Crabbe

Robert Burns happened to meet him, very far from Surrey, at Friars Cass, a grand baronial house in Dumfries in the summer of 1789, which was quite close to where Burns was living at that time.

The Bookshelf
Podcast Extra: Andrew O'Hagan

From first learning to read to right now, Robert Burns' voice is part of my inner ear now almost.