Funny, scurrilous, chilling and gloriously inventive, Tam o Shanter is widely regarded as Robert Burns masterpiece. This magnificent edition of thepoem features the work of Alexander Goudie, one of Scotlands greatest twentieth-century artists who, over a period of many years, was inspiredby the poem to produce some of his most powerful and imaginative paintings, which capture all the menace and comedy of Burns poem.Together with introductory essays by historian Edward Cowan, literary critic Alan Riach both of Glasgow University and the artists son, LachlanGoudie, this is the definitive edition of one of the greatest works of Scottish