Robert burns brief biography of harper
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‘Furious Hours’ Tells The Tale Of Harper Lee And Her Unfinished Work
When the kerfuffle over the impending release of Harper Lee's Go Set A Watchman was cluttering up my news feeds in 2015, I confess that inom didn't pay much attention.
Having not grown up in the United States, where Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird is often required reading in children's education, I first read the classic when I was 20. It was part of a yearlong attempt of ansträngande to catch up with what most of my college friends and professors considered canonical. It was with some trepidation, then, that inom approached Casey Cep's new book, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the gods Trial of Harper Lee.
I expected to be charmed by the writing; Cep writes regularly for The New Yorker, and her style fryst vatten detailed and evocative, sometimes dramatic in a fun way, as when she wrote of Harper Lee that "only Jesus made his father more famous." As a relatively recent convert to the true-crime genre, inom was hopeful that the
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Negotiating Cultural Memory: James Currie’s Works of Robert Burns
Leith Davis
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In his ‘Essay on Robert Burns,’ the Victorian pundit Thomas Carlyle expressed his sense, in typically excessive style, of the difficulty involved in reaching an adequate assessment of his countryman in 1838, arguing that:
till the companions of his pilgrimage, the Honorable Excise Commissioners, and the Gentlemen of the Caledonian Hunt, and the Dumfries aristocracy, and all the Squires and Earls, equally with Ayr Writers, and the New and Old Light Clergy, whom he had to do with, shall have become invisible in the darkness of the Past, or visible only by light borrowed from his juxtaposition, it will be difficult to measure him by any true standard, or to estimate what he really was and did, in the eighteenth century, for his country and the world.[1]
For Carlyle, the business of estimating Burns cannot begin until all who knew the poet have passed away. Carlyle&rsq
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Heather on History
I had never heard of the crimes of Reverend Willie Maxwell, who was suspected of murdering five of his family members in order to collect on the insurance policies he had taken out on them. I had also not known that he was shot and killed at the funeral of his adopted daughter. As a result, I was excited to read this book.
The prologue starts out promisingly, dropping the reader into the 1977 trial of Reverend Maxwell’s murderer, Robert Burns. We see Tom Radney, the defense lawyer who formerly represented Reverend Maxwell and is now defending Robert Burns. We also get a glimpse of Harper Lee, quietly watching the proceedings so she could get information for the book she planned to write about the Reverend. Though there were some interesting bits of information after the prologue, my interest tended to wax and wane as the book progressed.
The major problem I had with the book was its structure. It is divided into three parts: The Reverend, The Lawyer, an