Robert Burns and Francis Bacon

Professor Robert Crawford giving us a taste of the poetry of Robert Burns, Richard Serjeantson talks about the Elizabethan courtier and polymath Francis Bacon

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Published: January 19, 2009 at 2:15 pm

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