Nigel Leask is Regius Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow. He grew up in Stirlingshire and was educated at Edinburgh Academy, and Oxford and Cambridge Universities. He was a Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge for many years, and a Reader in Romantic Literature at Cambridge University, before moving to Glasgow in 2004. He has published widely on Romantic literature and has a special interest in Scottish Literature and Culture of the 'Long Eighteenth Century', Romantic literature and the British Empire, and travel writing. He has also taught at the University of Bologna, Italy, and a visiting professorship at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He is married with two daughters and lives in Glasgow.

• INTRODUCTION: 'THE HEAVEN-TAUGHT PLOUGHMAN'; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

In Robert Burns and Pastoral, Leask updates the "big" book on Burns' for a twenty-first-century audience, situating Burns within a complex frame of national and international historical forces and ideas.

Nigel Leask is Regius Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow. He grew up in Stirlingshire and was educated at Edinburgh Academy, and Oxford and Cambridge Universities. He was a Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge for many years, and a Reader in Romantic Literature at Cambridge University, before moving to Glasgow in 2004. He has published widely on Romantic literature and has a special interest in Scottish Literature and Culture of the 'Long Eighteenth Century', Romantic literature and the British Empire, and travel writing. He has also taught at the University of Bologna, Italy, and a visiting professorship at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He is married with two daughters and lives in Glasgow.

• INTRODUCTION: 'THE HEAVEN-TAUGHT PLOUGHMAN'; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

In Robert Burns and Pastoral, Leask updates the "big" book on Burns' for a twenty-first-century audience, situating Burns within a complex frame of national and international historical forces and ideas.

Nigel Leask is Regius Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow. He grew up in Stirlingshire and was educated at Edinburgh Academy, and Oxford and Cambridge Universities. He was a Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge for many years, and a Reader in Romantic Literature at Cambridge University, before moving to Glasgow in 2004. He has published widely on Romantic literature and has a special interest in Scottish Literature and Culture of the 'Long Eighteenth Century', Romantic literature and the British Empire, and travel writing. He has also taught at the University of Bologna, Italy, and a visiting professorship at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He is married with two daughters and lives in Glasgow.

• INTRODUCTION: 'THE HEAVEN-TAUGHT PLOUGHMAN'; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

In Robert Burns and Pastoral, Leask updates the "big" book on Burns' for a twenty-first-century audience, situating Burns within a complex frame of national and international historical forces and ideas.