Open to:
General public
Admission:
Free
5:30 – 6:30PM
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Lewis Walpole Library Lecture: “Robert Burns and Scottish Independence”
Robert Crawford, Professor of Modern Scottish Literature, University of St. Andrews
Scotland’s greatest poet, Robert Burns, championed the value of the “independent mind.” Robert Crawford, a Burns biographer and poet, examines whether this means that Burns also supported Scottish political independence.
