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by Michael Alexander © Cheryl Livingstone Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Michael Alexander hears about the night in 1834 when a surgeon robbed the poet’s grave and stole his skull in the name of science While the poetry of Robert Burns is mainly moving, melancholic and thoughtful, studies of his works suggest that the spectre of death was never far from his thoughts with references to epitaphs, reflections, and musings on the dead. Burns wasn’t above the gritty detail either, as his “Epitaph for William Nicol” shows: Ye maggots, feed on Nicol’s brain. Having been poorly for much of his short adult life, Burns was only too well aware of his own mortality.

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