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Skulduggery: The night a surgeon robbed the bard's grave


by Michael Alexander
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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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