The Riotous Passions of Robbie Burns by John Ivison Non-Fiction Stewart Dudley

Stewart Dudley

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The seat of the Scottish Enlightenment was electrified by the arrival of the ploughman poet and his free-thinking accounts of 18th-century peasant life

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The Riotous Passions of Robbie Burns by John Ivison Non-Fiction Stewart DudleyPoet, romantic, lover and carouser, Robert Burns blazed into Edinburgh in 1786 like a comet. The seat of the Scottish Enlightenment was electrified by the arrival of the ploughman poet and his free thinking accounts of 18th century peasant life. But while Burns tinder heart was often set alight, he found his love poems failed to have the desired effect on the lively half of mankind, as the capitals refined ladies kept this force of nature at arms