Author:Robert Burns (1759-1796)

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Robert Burns (1759–1796)

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Scottish poet and songwrite; 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

• All individual songs and poems
• Banks of Forth (1802)
• Buxom Dame of Reading, or, The Cuckold's Cap (1809)
• For a' that and a' that (2) (1818)
• Highland laddie (3) (1820)
• John Anderson my Jo (1828)
• The Merry Muses of Caledonia (1911)
• The Scots Musical Museum (Volume 1, 1787) (transcription project)
• 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)
• Aloway Kirk, or, Tam O' Shanter (1822)

Works about Burns

• "Robert Burns", by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Life of Robert Burns, by J. G. Lockhart (1828) (external scan)
• "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)
• "Burns, Robert (1759-1796)," in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885–1900) in 63 vols.

External links

• 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