Drinking and Spewing
Sally Mapstone: The Variousness of Robert Fergusson, 25 September 2003
‘Heaven-Taught Fergusson’: Robert Burns’s Favourite Scottish Poet
edited by Robert Crawford.
Tuckwell, 240 pp., £14.99, August 2002,1 86232 201 5 Show More
edited by Robert Crawford.
Tuckwell, 240 pp., £14.99, August 2002,
“... than be hunted by mankind until trapped and put in a cage for a young lady to admire: For whan fair freedom smiles nae mair, Care I for life? Shame fa the hair; A field o’ergrown wi rankest stubble, The essence of a paltry bubble. This willingness to toss away life itself in the face of corralling and compromise is evident in ... ”