Robert Burns

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.

Burns died at 37, and is buried in the graveyard of St Michael's Church, Dumfries, Scotland.

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References




 Dietrich Hohmann: Ich, Robert Burns, Biographical Novel, Neues Leben, Berlin 1990 (in German)

Other websites

Modern English translations of poems by Robert Burns

Robert Burns website at National Library of Scotland

Legacy of Robert Burns – National Archives of Scotland website 
 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

 A Recital Holly Willie's Prayer including Epitaph on Holly Willie

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