Robert Burns and Scottish Independence
Nineteenth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture

September 20, 2012 at 5:30 p.m.
Yale Center for British Art Lecture Hall
1080 Chapel Street, New Haven

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. All are welcome to attend this event.