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A Night Out with Robert Burns : The Greatest Poems, Paperback Book

A Night Out with Robert Burns : The Greatest Poems Paperback

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The Scottish poet Robert Burns has been idolised and eulogised.

He has been sainted, painted, tarted up and toasted.

He is famous as the author of 'Auld Lang Syne', and he has long since become the patron saint of the heart-sore and the hung-over.

But what about the poems? Beneath the cult of Burns' Nights and patriotic yawps, there is the work itself, among the purest and most truthful created in any age.

This is a Burns collection like no other: a reader's edition, made for the pleasure of reading.

Novelist and Scottish essayist Andrew O'Hagan comes into company with the poet who has mattered most to him in his writing life.

He selects the poems for the reader, and converses with the work, offering fragments and distilled commentary of his own.

The effect is explosive, giving us Robert Burns at his very best - a political Burns, a poet who can name hypocrisy and intolerance, and point directly to the human heart.

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