![]() ![]() From the joys of a romp-in-the-hay to the dizzy heights and strains of Platonic love, from the complications of divided loyalties to the lament at fates cruel twists, Burns travelled far and wide in the realm of the heart during his brief 37 years. It could be argued that, for him, it was a fatal attraction, as his heart and desires were often pulled in more than one direction and it certainly couldn't be said of him that his affairs were kept in order! However, the legacy, is a remarkable canon of love poetry that spans the gamut of emotions from the celebration of physical intimacy, through uxorial joy to the pain of loss and separation to the celebration of enduring relationship. ![]() There is no doubt that Burns was attracted to the lassies. It is the spark of celestial fire which lights up the wintry hut of Poverty, and makes the chearless mansion, warm, comfortable and gay. All the pleasures, all the happiness of my humble Compeers, flow immediately from this delicious source. Burns wrote to a friend, Alexander Cunningham, on 24 January 1789, the day before his thirtieth birthday: I myself can affirm, both from bachelor and wedlock experience, that Love is the Alpha and the Omega of human enjoyment. ![]()
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