version of the national poet (there's enough plain-speaking about [Robert] Burns's laddishness, his support for the slave trade, his snobbishness and his hypocrisy to prevent that happening). Rather, we get a portrait of a man with astonishing natural gifts, living in toughly actual times. The poetry is allowed to breathe an air of genius, but is always connected to the spirit of its places.from Andrew Motion: The Guardian: 'Humming the air with the verses I have framed'
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