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The Bard.(Brief article)(Book review)

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Robert Burns died an exciseman (tracking down smugglers in the port of Dumfries), but he lived, loved, and versified as an outlaw. Incapable of keeping his "guid weely-willy p--le" in his pants, he produced an impressive number of bastards, as well as several legitimate children. He was a flash dresser, a smooth talker, and a political radical. Robert Crawford, following in the demystifying path of Catherine Carswell's 1930 biography (for which she received a ...

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