The Poet Who Inspired Burns
by
Rick Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
‘Rhyme I had given up; but meeting with Fergusson’s Scottish Poems, I strung anew my wildly-sounding rustic lyre with emulating vigour.’ (Robert Burns recalling his younger self in 1787)
But who is Burns referring to? It’s not easy to answer if you go beyond naming him as the poetic...