. The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world. ut at the time of the poets birthwas a nurseryman on a small piece of land onthe banks of the Doon in Ayrshire. He was aman of strong intelligence and deep piety, butunsuccessful in his struggle with poverty. Hismother was Agnes Brown, a woman of ability,and, though of meagre book education, well-versed in folk-song and legend. Robert, theeldest of seven children, went to school forthree years, 1765-68, under John Murdoch in theneighboring v
. The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world. ut at the time of the poets birthwas a nurseryman on a small piece of land onthe banks of the Doon in Ayrshire. He was aman of strong intelligence and deep piety, butunsuccessful in his struggle with poverty. Hismother was Agnes Brown, a woman of ability,and, though of meagre book education, well-versed in folk-song and legend. Robert, theeldest of seven children, went to school forthree years, 1765-68, under John Murdoch in theneighboring village of Alloway. Later he wasin attendance for a few months each at Dal-rymple parish school in 1772, at Ayr Academyin 1773, and at Kirkoswald about 1776; but themore important part of his education he re-ceived from his father and his own 1766 William Burness had borrowed moneyto rent the farm of Mount Oliphant; and thefuture poet by the time he was sixteen was do-ing a mans work, overstraining his iminaturephysique in performing his share in the vaineffort of the family to keep its head abovewater. The scene of the struggle was moved. ROBERT BURNS BURNS in 1777 to Lochlea, about ten miles distant,where in 1784 his father died. During theLochlea period, Burns, ambitious to improvehis position, went to the neighboring town ofIrvine to learn flax-dressing. Nothing came ofthis move; but while resident there he formedthat acquaintance with a dissipated sailor towhich he himself ascribed the beginning of hislicentious adventures. On his fathers death,Robert and his brother Gilbert rented the farmof Mossgiel, but this experiment was no moresuccessful than those previously made. Whilehere he contracted an intimacy with JeanArmour, which brought upon him the censureof the Kirk-scssion. Finally the poet, dis-heartened by successive bad harvests and irri-tated by the attempts of his father-in-law tocancel his irregular marriage with Jean and tohand him over to the law. dete
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