Burns, ”The Merry Muses” and sexuality | Inside the Mind of Robert Burns

Duration: 5'31''

Synopsis

Burns' "The Merry Muses of Caledonia" is a collection of bawdy songs that scholars say were actually a political comment on the ruling classes.

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