Life Of Robert Burns Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from Life of Robert Burns Most people are aware that the Life of Burns has already been dealt with by not a few eminent writers. It was, therefore, with reluctance and misgivings that I - alto gether without experience of this kind of work - under took to pen a sketch of the Poet's career, with a View to the completion of the Third Volume of The Book of Robert Burns, which was projected and so far carried through by the late Dr. Charles Rogers, under the auspices of the Grampian Club. When the third volume of the above-named work appeared, my narrative met with many unexpectedly favour able press notices, in some of which the opinion was expressed that this Life of Burns should be recast for publication in separate form, and at a cost easily acces sible to those of the general public who might care to have it. The Biography is now issued in accordance with this opinion. It is nowadays next to impossible to lay any large or just claim to originality in dealing with the Life of Burns. This volume only claims to be a faithful and sympathetic effort to put together a record of facts, as full as moderate space would hold, and in language as simple and concise as the writer could employ. A biographer's first and constant aim should be to keep himself in the background. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.