John Campbell Shairp’s Robert Burns (1879), published in the English Men of Letters series, is a classic of Victorian literary biography and criticism. Shairp offers a sympathetic and perceptive account of Burns’s life, character, and poetic achievement — placing his work in its Scottish cultural context and making the case for his enduring greatness as a lyric poet.
An ideal companion volume to Burns’s own poems, this free EPUB is cleanly formatted and reads as fresh today as when it was written.