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Robert Burns, often hailed as Scotland’s national bard, remains a towering figure in the annals of Scottish literature and song. His works, rich with the Scots language and keen observations of Scottish life, resonate with authenticity, emotion, and a profound social commentary.
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Robert Burns was born on 25 January 1759 in the village of Alloway, two miles south of Ayr. His parents, Willian Burnes[s] and Agnes Broun, were tenant farmers but they ensured their son received a relatively good education and he began to read avidly. The works of Alexander Pope, Henry Mackenzie and Laurence Sterne fired Burns's poetic impulse and...
Newly hailed as the Ploughman Poet because his poems complemented the growing literary taste for romanticism and pastoral pleasures, Burns arrived in Edinburgh, where he was welcomed by a circle of wealthy and important friends. Illicit relationships and fathering illegitimate children ran parallel to a productive period in his working life. His co...
In just 18 short months, Burns had spent most of the wealth from his published poetry, so in 1789 he began work as an Excise Officer in Dumfries (an irony not lost on him) and resumed his relationship with wife Jean. His increasingly radical political views influenced many of the phenomenal number of poems, songs and letters he continued to pen, in...
The World of Robert Burns. Robert Burns lived during the latter half of the 18th century, a period marked by significant social, political, and cultural changes in Scotland and beyond.
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