With Burns Night just around the corner, The Herald on Sunday met with Scotland’s leading Burns scholars at Glasgow University to separate myth from truth. Burns adds he “f****d her until she rejoiced”. Lochhead called Burns “Weinsteinian”, and a “sex pest”, saying the “disgraceful boast … seemed very like a rape of his heavily pregnant girlfriend”. On the flip side, it’s wrong to see Burns as overshadowing other Scottish writers of the time. McCue adds that Scotland should see itself as “blessed to have a writer like Burns”.
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