Robert Burns: Scottish poet and lyricist (1759–1796)
Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 1796) was a famous poet born in Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland.
Some of his most famous poems include To A Mouse, Auld Lang Syne, and Tam o Shanter. Burns is seen as the national poet of Scotland. Much of his work is written in broad Scots, a sister language to English. His poem and song A Man's A Man For A' That was sung at the opening of the Scottish Parliament in 1999. "To A Louse, On Seeing One on a Lady's Bonnet at Church" is a 1786 Scots poem by Robert Burns.
Robert Burns | |
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 The best-known portrait of Burns, by Alexander Nasmyth, 1787 (detail) | |
| Born | 25 January 1759 Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland |
| Died | 21 July 1796 (aged 37) Dumfries, Scotland |
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| Nationality | Scottish |
| Citizenship | British |
| Literary movement | Romanticism |
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Burns died at 37, and is buried in the graveyard of St Michael's Church, Dumfries, Scotland.
Notes
- Burns, R (1993). Bold, A (ed.). Rhymer Rab: An Anthology of Poems and Prose. London: Black Swan. ISBN 1-84195-380-6.
- Burns, R (2003). Noble, A; Hogg, PS (eds.). The Canongate Burns: The Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns. Edinburgh: Canongate Books. ISBN 1-84195-380-6.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons. Wikisource- Dietrich Hohmann: Ich, Robert Burns, Biographical Novel, Neues Leben, Berlin 1990 (in German)
Other websites
- Modern English translations of poems by Robert Burns
- Works by Robert Burns at Project Gutenberg
- Robert Burns website at National Library of Scotland
- Archival material relating to Robert Burns listed at the UK National Archives
- Legacy of Robert Burns – National Archives of Scotland website Archived 2009-10-08 at the Wayback Machine
- Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, p. 57
- A recital of Tam o Shanter a Tale
- A recital Address to the Unco Guid
- A recital of Address to a Haggis
- Video recital of Tam o' Shanter at YouTube
- Video recital Address to the Unco Guid or the rigidly righteous at YouTube
- A Recital Holly Willie's Prayer including Epitaph on Holly Willie
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