J. Walter McGinty received his PhD at the University of Strathclyde on

'Literary, Philosophical and Theological Influences on Robert Burns'.

Dr McGinty is an ordained Minister, having trained for the Ministry of

the Church of Scotland at the University of Glasgow and Trinity College

Glasgow. Other publications are Robert Burns and Religion, (Ashgate);

and Robert Burns the Book Lover: From Reader to Writer, (Humming

Earth.) The present volume completes the trilogy of books that have

examined the influence of the reading of Robert Burns. McGinty has

also written a biography, 'An Animated Son of Liberty': A Life of John

Witherspoon, (Arena) and has published papers on 'John Goldie and

Robert Burns' and 'Milton's Satan and Burns's Auld Nick' in Studies in

Scottish Literature Vols XXIX and XXXIII.

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