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Robert Burns | |
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![]() The best-known portrait of Burns, by Alexander Nasmyth, 1787 (detail) | |
Born | Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland | 25 January 1759
Died | 21 July 1796 Dumfries, Scotland | (aged 37)
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Nationality | Scottish |
Citizenship | British |
Literary movement | Romanticism |
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Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 1796) was a famous poet born in Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland.[1] 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.
Notes
[change | change source]- ↑ "Robert Burns". Academy of American Poets. Retrieved 2008-12-23.
References
[change | change source]- 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)
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