“Is Andy Griffith our Robert Burns? One should argue Whitman or Poe, or even Frost, makes for a richer comparison. Certainly self-invented Whitman, who loved Burns, is the triumphant American version — yet the Whitman house in Camden, New Jersey, receives scant visitors. The same is true for Poe’s tidy home in Baltimore, now temporarily […]
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Andy Griffith, contemporary America’s Robert Burns?
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged andy griffith, evan smith rakoff, los angeles review of books, mount airy nc, robert burns on April 24, 2013 | Leave a Comment »