Robert Burns. Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796) (also known as Robbie Burns,[1] Rabbie Burns, Scotland's favourite son, the Ploughman Poet, Robden of Solway Firth, the Bard of Ayrshire and in Scotland as The Bard)[2][3] was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in English and a light Scots dialect, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland. He also wrote in standard English, and in these writings his political or civil commentary is often at its bluntest. Ayrshire Burns Cottage in Alloway, Scotland Inside the Burns Cottage Museum in Alloway Alloway He was born in a house built by his father (now the Burns Cottage Museum), where he lived until Easter 1766, when he was seven years old. By the age of 15, Burns was the principal labourer at Mount Oliphant.
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Rabbie Burns poetry. Rabbie Burns quotes. Rabbie Burns statues. Burns Supper. Robert Burns Tribute - Burns Supper, Haggis, Poems and more. Robert Burns - Biography. Robert Burns. Robert Burns was born into a farming family at Alloway in Ayrshire in 1759. He died in Dumfries at the early age of 37. Yet in that short time he had taken the Scottish literary world by storm, and had secured a place for himself in history and in legend. This site is based on material by or relating to 'Scotland's Bard' which is held by the National Library of Scotland (except where otherwise stated). Special features are pages giving highlights of the Library's significant resources — whether original letters or poems (see manuscripts pages) or important books.
Downloading images Without written permission, you should not download images featured on this site for anything other than temporary personal use. Robert Burns by Alexander Nasmyth.By permission of the National Galleries of Scotland. Robert Burns. Robert Burns: Alexandria Burns Club Information on the Scottish Poet. Robert Burns facts - Robert Burns Birthplace Museum. Robert Burns. BackgroundRobert Burns was born on 25 January 1759 in the village of Alloway in Ayrshire. For much of his life he was involved with the land and physical toil and knew well the difficulties of poverty and deprivation.
Nevertheless, as a young man he had taken to writing poetry, much of it in his native Scots language. This was unusual - by the end of the 18th century Scots was no longer regarded as the speech of "educated" men and women. In 1786 he was about to emigrate to the West Indies when he published a collection of his poems in the county town of Kilmarnock - "Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect". The book (now known as the Kilmarnock Edition) was an instant success and instead of emigrating he went to Edinburgh where he was welcomed by a number of leading literary figures. Robert Burns - All poems of Robert Burns. Robert Burns Country: the official Robert Burns site.
Robert Burns - Burns Nicht sangs an poems. Cabinet 4: Ayrshire, In Search of Scotland, University of Otago, New Zealand. Cabinet 4 Robert Burns is Scotland’s national poet. He was born in Alloway, just south of Ayr, on 25 January 1759. He moved to Dumfries in 1788, and died there on 21 July 1796. He was only 37. In April 1786, as a way to gather money for passage to Jamaica, Burns approached the Kilmarnock printer John Wilson and asked him to print his ‘Scotch Poems’. Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect was published on 31 July 1786 and cost 3 shillings. Its success was immediate. This is a facsimile copy of what is now known famously as the Kilmarnock edition.
Robert Burns, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Rabbie Burns & Tartans | Scottish Tartans Authority. Robert Burns and Tartan It is a matter of recorded fact that Robert Burns wore tartan. "Burns when at home, usually wore a blue or drab long-tailed coat, corduroy breeches, dark-blue stockings, and cootikens, and in cold weather a black-and-white checked plaid. " (From a recollection of William Clark, servant of Robert Burns at Ellisland, near Dumfries, 1789-90). Pennant, in his Tour Through Scotland (1772), tells us that in Langholme, Dumfries - "The manufactures are stuffs, serges, black and white plaids...
" The "Shepherd Tartan" is registered with the Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI 1253). Many "authorities", over a long period of time, have held to the opinion that tartan was uniquely a manifestation of Highland culture and was historically alien to the Scottish Lowlands. Touching briefly on politics - tartan was a particular emblem of the Jacobites, and those who doubt the Jacobite sympathies of Robert Burns should consider these lines which he engraved on a window in Stirling - Robert Burns. The Story of Robert Burns. Robert Burns. Robert Burns - Bard. Robert Burns. Eddi Reader's Rabbie Burns Trip :: TernTV. BBC2 (1 x 60 mins) Scottish singer and Robert Burns enthusiast Eddi Reader travels across Ulster to discover how the poet influenced his peers on this side of the Irish Sea. Eddi takes to the road in a camper van to share her love of Robert Burns and to learn about Ulster's 'Weaver Poets' and the language and themes they shared with him.
Interspersed throughout the programme are performances by Eddi of her own acclaimed interpretations of Burns songs such as 'Charlie Is My Darling', 'My Love Is Like A Red Red Ros'e and 'Auld Lang Syne', from a recent concert in Belfast's Ulster Hall. Just as Rabbie Burns worked as a flax stresser, the Weaver Poets of Ulster worked in the linen industry and were largely contemporaries of Burns. Eddi starts her journey by visiting the Irish Linen Centre in Lisburn where she discovers how the rhythm of the machinery may have influenced the poets in their writing. Eddi says: "I'd have loved to have met Robert Burns. Images © BBC. The Star O' Rabbie Burns. Listen to the song here if it doesn't play automatically The song will play in a new window allowing you to follow the words as you listen to the song. This song (words by James Thomson and music by James Booth) is often sung at Burns Suppers which celebrate the life and works of Robert Burns around the world at the end of January each year.
There is a star whose beaming ray Is shed on ev'ry clime. It shines by night, it shines by day And ne'er grows dim wi' time. It rose upon the banks of Ayr, It shone on Doon's clear stream - Twa hundred years are gane and mair, Yet brighter grows its beam. Chorus Let kings and courtiers rise and fa', This world has mony turns Yet brightly beams abeen them a' The star o' Rabbie Burns. Though he was but a ploughman lad And wore the hodden grey, Auld Scotia's sweetest bard was bred Aneath a roof o'strae. Tae sweep the strings o' Scotia's lyre, It needs nae classic lore; It's mither wit an native fire That warms the bosom's core.
Traditional Scottish Songs - The Star o' Rabbie Burns. Jean Armour. Statue of Jean Armour in Dumfries Jean Armour (25 February 1765 – 26 March 1834), also known as the "Belle of Mauchline", was the wife of the poet Robert Burns. She inspired many of his poems and bore him nine children, three of whom survived into adulthood. Biography[edit] Born in Mauchline, Ayrshire in 1765, Jean Armour was second oldest of the eleven children of stonemason James Armour (died 1798) and Mary Smith Armour. By the time Burns's first illegitimate child, Elizabeth Paton Burns (1785 - 1817) was born to Elizabeth Paton (died 1817) on 22 May 1785, he and Jean Armour were in a relationship and by the end of the year she was pregnant with his child.
His letters from this period indicate that he intended to marry Jean Armour as soon as they realised she was pregnant, but had been discouraged by her reluctance to disobey her father's disapproval of the union. Jean remained with her parents in the village of Mauchline, and Robert in the farm at Mossgiel. Sources[edit] See also[edit] Welcome to Mauchline.
Jean Armour Statue, Dumfries:: OS grid NX9775.