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Description: | This is volume one of a four volume edition of the works of Robert Burns edited by James Currie and published in 1818. Currie was a doctor, working in Liverpool, but originally from Annan who was chosen by Burns' friends to write his biography.
Currie was a reformed alcoholic and chose to put a sanctimonious and moralising slant on Burns' way of life, painting a picture of drunkenness and excess in the poet's later years.
The biography, published in 1800, only four years after the poet's death was an immediate success and raised ��1,400 for his widow and family. However, its treatment of Burns' life has left misconceptions which persist to this day. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Dumfries & Galloway Council - Nithsdale Museums | Temporal: | 1818-01-01 - 1818-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | 'The Works of Robert Burns, with an Acco | Go to resource |
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