Robert Burns Farmer

Few readers of Robert Burns¹ poetry appreciate the rigors of the farming life to which he was brought up. Farming in Ayrshire, Scotland in the late 18th century involved an arduous and demanding routine. The domestic architecture, the equipment, the animals, the techniques, the whole way of life, are all present in the most detailed and intimate way in Burns¹ poetry. Reading Gavin Sprott¹s account of all this, with its precise detail and its careful pointing to the reflection of the farming life in the poetry, we are given a new awareness of the context and meaning of what Burns wrote. The book is beautifully illustrated with drawings, photographs, and examples of Burns¹ writing in his own hand.Sprott, Gavin is the author of 'Robert Burns Farmer' with ISBN 9780788199202 and ISBN 078819920X.