Nineteenth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture: “Robert Burns and Scottish Independence”

Thursday, September 20 at 5:30, Yale Center for British Art Lecture Hall. Nineteenth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture presents: Robert Crawford, Professor of Modern Scottish Literature, University of St. Andrews. Scotland’s greatest poet, Robert Burns, championed the value of the “independent mind.” In this public lecture, poet and Burns biographer Robert Crawford asks whether Burns also supported Scottish political independence.