Kate's Book Blog: Andrew O'Hagan on Robert Burns
These reflections on Burns are so close to my experience of learning to love him that they are well worth repeating:
"I ... fell in love, not only with the mind-warpingly beautiful lines in those poems, but with him - his life and his voice and his spirit travelling through time."
O'Hagan learned Burns' rythms by "typing his words"; for me it is singing his songs (in the car, alone) or in our social evenings.
Lately, learning to play the tunes on the tin-whistle evokes something very deep.
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