Book description
Introduced by Thomas Crawford. First published in 1930 to an
unprecedented storm of protest, Catherine Carswell's The Life of Robert
Burns remains the standard work on its subject. Carswell deliberately
shakes the image of Burns as a romantic hero - exposing the sexual
misdemeanours, drinking bouts and waywardness that other, more
reverential, biographies choose to overlook. Catherine Carswell's real
achievement is to bring alive the personality of a great man:
passionate, hard-living, generous, melancholic, morbid and triumphant .
. . the very archetype of the supreme creative artist.
