The Riotous Passions of Robbie Burns by John Ivison Non-Fiction The seat of the Scottish

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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But while Burns’ tinder heart was often set alight

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The Riotous Passions of Robbie Burns by John Ivison Non-Fiction The seat of the ScottishPoet, 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