Rabbie Burns II

The 250th anniversary of his birth today, and nothing of Burns on WETA, that I heard in any event. Mozart instead, as this was his birthday too. After listening to Mozart for a spell I feel just as moved as if I had heard a talented typist give a concert on a Remington. When I [...]

Rabbie Burns

Sunday is the 250th anniversary of Burns’ birth, and a good time to ask why we should care. His poetry seldom rises higher than the level of amusing doggerel, and in his personal life he was the very model of poets-behaving-badly. At school, we were made to memorize the poetry because (gag me) it was [...]