He has authored eight books and edited two others. He became Emeritus Professor the same year. Professor Jack retired in 2004 as chair of Scottish and Medieval Literature at the University of Edinburgh. So here we are discussing Burns and sex…again! My friend Thomas Keith told me years ago that to understand Robert Burns, we have to appreciate all of him, including the word sex which another friend, Pauline Gray Mackay, refers to as a “legitimate area of study, although it was seen as taboo until recently.” I agree with her that “his bawdy deserves a place in the canon of his work.” How else can you appreciate the man without a look at all his writings?īefore we get into his article, let’s take a brief look at R.D.S. My thinking was that three articles coming from three different scholars would give us three distinctive perspectives such as we had accomplished earlier in these pages on the subject of Burns and slavery. I chose “Burns and Bawdy” since we already had two similar articles on Robert Burns Lives!. He responded promptly and graciously (a great characteristic, I have learned, of Ronnie Jack) volunteered two articles. I recently emailed Ronnie and asked him to consider submitting an article for this web site. I finally met Ronnie at the University of South Carolina in Columbia while attending its Burns conference saluting the Bard on his 250th birthday. Shaw, FSA Scot, Dawsonville, GA, USAĮmail: had long heard of Ronnie Jack and owned an excellent publication he co-edited, The Art Of Robert Burns, which I find myself referring to from time to time for references for my own articles or speeches.
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