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Robert Burns
The best-known portrait of Burns,
by Alexander Nasmyth, 1787 (detail)
Born (1759-01-25)25 January 1759
Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland
Died 21 July 1796(1796-07-21) (aged 37)
Dumfries, Scotland
Occupation
  • Poet
  • lyricist
  • farmer
  • exciseman
Nationality Scottish
Citizenship British
Literary movement Romanticism
Notable work(s)
  • "Auld Lang Syne"
  • "To a Mouse"
  • "A Man's a Man for A' That"
  • "Ae Fond Kiss"
  • "Scots Wha Hae"
  • "Tam O'Shanter"
  • "Halloween"
  • "The Battle of Sherramuir"
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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 version of 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:

O, wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
It wad frae mony a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion:
What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us,
An' ev'n devotion!

Burns died at a young age, and lies buried in the graveyard of St Michael's Church, Dumfries, Scotland.

Images for kids

  • Geburtshaus RobertBurns 3 10x15

    The Burns Cottage in Alloway, Ayrshire

  • The burns family

    Inside the Burns Cottage

  • PG 1063Burns Naysmith

    Full view of the Nasmyth portrait of 1787, Scottish National Portrait Gallery

  • Kilmarnockvolume

    Title page of the Kilmarnock Edition

  • Alexander Nasmyth - Robert Burns, 1759 - 1796. Poet - Google Art Project

    Alexander Nasmyth, Robert Burns (1828).

  • Robert Burns statue, Bernard Street

    Burns statue by David Watson Stevenson (1898) in Bernard Street, Leith

  • River Nith at Ellisland

    The River Nith at Ellisland Farm.

  • Ellisland Farm and the River Nith

    Ellisland farm in the time of Robert Burns

  • Robert Burns' House, Dumfries

    Burns House in Dumfries, Scotland

  • Robert Burns Mausoleum, Dumfries

    Robert Burns Mausoleum at St. Michael's churchyard in Dumfries

  • Burns 2

    Statue of Burns in Dumfries town centre, unveiled in 1882

  • J13379 ArtVille 20110621-160722 RobertBurns SquareDorchesterMontreal

    Burns Monument in Dorchester square, Montréal, Québec

  • Ellisland Farm, Dumfries, c 1900

    Ellisland Farm c. 1900

  • statue of man on a tall base in a park

    Burns statue in Treasury Gardens, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

  • Ussr-robertburns1956

    Burns stamp, USSR 1956

  • Robert Burns 1

    Engraved version of the Alexander Nasmyth 1787 portrait

  • Cutting the haggis

    "Great chieftain o' the puddin-race!" – cutting the haggis at a Burns supper


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