Burns Night: Tam O ‘Shanter

Posted on 25th January 2021 by William the Bloody

As it’s Burns Night, here’s a link to Robert Burns’s delightfully Gothic poem Tam O ‘Shanter (1791), in which, after a heavy bout of drinking, Tam narrowly escapes the clutches of a horde of witches.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43815/tam-o-shanter

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About William the Bloody

Cat lover. 18C scholar on the dialogue and novel. Co-convenor OGOM Project
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