News at Eleven: It is perhaps no surprise that [Robert] Burns

as sincere Protestant poet and the later construction of him as imperial Protestant poet have obscured a deeper truth. For Burns was culturally ecumenical. As a product of the Enlightenment, he was the first lowland Scottish writer to have much of a good word for the highlander. The great 15th-century poet William Dunbar, for instance, said that there was no music in Hell . . . except for the bagpipes.

from The Catholic Herald: Robert Burns, an ecumenical poet

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