Robert Burns, Poet and Lyricist
Robert Burns was born in 1759 in the village of Alloway in Scotland and is regarded not only as Scotland’s National Poet but also as one of the best known poets across the world. He started life as the son of a farmer but received good schooling and developed a fondness for poetry. He married Jean Armour but also had many other passionate relationships with women and wrote poems for them, Mary Campbell (Highland Mary), Agnes (Nancy) McLehose (Ae Fond Kiss), Nelly Kirkpatrick, his first love (O, once I loved a bonnie lass, Handsome Nell). The publication of the Kilmarnock Edition and his early poems, To a Mouse, To a Louse, the Cotter’s Saturday Night brought recognition of his talent. Other well known works are Tam o’ Shanter, A Red Red Rose, A Man’s a Man for A’ That, and Auld Lang Syne. He died at the age of just 37 and is buried in the Robert Burns Mausoleum in Dumfries.
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