[New-Poetry] Burns' ears are burning

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1044932/Paxman-outrages-Scots-calling-Burns-poetry-sentimental-doggerel.html
Paxman outrages Scots by calling Burns' poetry 'sentimental doggerel' 

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 1:24 PM on 14th August 2008


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Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman has sparked fury after he dismissed Scotland's national bard Robert Burns as 'no more than a king of sentimental doggerel'.


Paxman's slur on the poet, in an introduction to the new edition of Chambers Dictionary, has incensed Burns experts.

One leading scholar said the TV presenter was both wrong and ill-informed - and attacked him for making 'another poke in the ribs of Jock'.


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