Author:Robert Burns (1759-1796)
For authors with similar names, see Author:Robert Burns.
Scottish poet and songwriter; widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in English and in a "light" Scots dialect which would have been accessible to a wider audience than simply Scots speakers. 
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Robert Burns
Works
[edit]- All individual songs and poems
- The Scots Musical Museum (Volume 1, 1787) (transcription project)
- Buxom Dame of Reading, or, The Cuckold's Cap (1809)
- For a' that and a' that (1818) (1818)
- Banks of Forth (1820)
- John Anderson my Jo (1828)
- The Poetical Works of Robert Burns (1887) (transcription project)
- The Merry Muses of Caledonia (1911)
- Speech of King Robert the Bruce to his troops, to urge them on to fight with King Edward II. and his formidable host, at the ever memorable Battle of Bannockburn, fought on the 25th of June, 1314 (1798)
- Trade o' langsyne, or, The mechanic's farewell (between 1804 and 1819)
- "Tam o' Shanter" (1791)
Works about Burns
[edit]- Life of Robert Burns, by John Gibson Lockhart (1828) (external scan)
- "Robert Burns" in Ultima Thule (1880), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- "Robert Burns" in A Voice from the Nile, and Other Poems (1884), by James Thomson
- "Robert Burns" in Canada and Other Poems (1887), by Thomas Frederick Young
- "Burns: An Ode" in A Channel Passage and Other Poems (1904), by Algernon Charles Swinburne
- "Burns, Robert (1759-1796)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
- "Burns, Robert," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
- "Burns, Robert," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- 'Birth of Burns' programme, 1859
External links
[edit]- Burns Country – more than 550 Robert Burns’ lyrics
- The Robert Burns World Federation – more than 640 Robert Burns’ lyrics in original and standard English translation
- Robert Burns Country - The Official Robert Burns Site
Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1930, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.
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