of Robert Burns? Why do people in far-flung countries celebrate his birthday each year with set-piece Burns suppers, culminating in solemn toasts to the Immortal Memory? No other poet – with the exception of Shakespeare – appears to generate such long-lived, heartfelt affection; no other poet’s words are sung by vast crowds in a thousand distant cities each New Year when Auld Lang Syne is given voice. Burns is simply universal.from Telegraph: The Bard: a Biography by Robert Crawford--review
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