Life of Robert Burns (Canongate Classic) [Paperback]

Catherine Carswell (Author)

Book Description

Series: Canongate Classic | Publication Date: May 1, 2009

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 misdemeanors, 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. Introduced by Thomas Crawford.

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About the Author

Catherine Carswell's (1879-1946) friendship with D.H. Lawrence was kindled by her favorable review of The White Peacock (1911). They met in 1914 and their relationship lasted until Lawrence's death in. In 1916 she and Lawrence exchanged manuscripts of Open the Door! and Women in Love. Her novel was completed in 1918 and won the Melrose Prize on publication in 1920. Her other novel, The Camomile, was published two years later, after which she devoted herself to The Life of Robert Burns, which made her name in 1930. This was quickly followed by a biography of Lawrence, The Savage Pilgrimage (1932). She worked with John Buchan's widow on his memorial anthology, The Clearing House (1946) and on her own autobiography, which was published, incomplete, as Lying Awake in 1950. Carswell died in Oxford at the age of 66.

Product Details

• Paperback: 415 pages
• Publisher: Canongate UK (May 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0862412927
• ISBN-13: 978-0862412920
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,535,412 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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