Publisher's Synopsis
21st century Burns scholarship is making some unexpected and exciting discoveries about the poet and his work. "Fickle Man" is a new volume of essays by top international writers and scholars published to mark the 250th anniversary of the poet's birth, bringing fresh and vigorous insights into the significance of Burns - peasant, poet, Enlightenment genius, revolutionary and lover, to the new century. The book contains 16 pages of full colour plates, has line drawings throughout and features a previously unseen image of the bard.
