Poems and Quotations. Robert Burns - All poems of Robert Burns. Robert Burns Quotes - WorldofQuotes. Robert Burns 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 his political or civil commentary is often at its bluntest. He is regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic movement, and after his death he became a great source of inspiration to the founders of both liberalism and socialism, and a cultural icon in Scotland and among the Scottish Diaspora around the world. Celebration of his life and work became almost a national charismatic cult during the 19th and 20th centuries, and his influence has long been strong on Scottish literature.
Memorials and Statues. Images: Statue of Robert Burns, Glasgow. List of Robert Burns memorials. Burns Monument at the poet's birthplace, Alloway This a list of memorials to Scottish poet Robert Burns.
Scotland[edit] Aberdeen - Statue near Union Terrace GardensAlloway - monument a short distance from his birthplace - PhotoArbroath - statue by Scott Sutherland in the grounds of Arbroath LibraryAyr - statue in Burns Statue Square PhotoDumfries - town centre statue outside Greyfriars ChurchDumfries - mausoleum/burial site at St Michaels ChurchyardDumfries - Burns House museum [1]Dundee - statue in MeadowsideEdinburgh - Burns Monument in Regent Road, south of Calton Hill. Australia[edit] Robert Burns Memorial in Centenary Place, Brisbane Canada[edit] England[edit] statue in Victoria Embankment Gardens, London (1884) New Zealand[edit] statue in The Octagon, Dunedin. United States[edit] References[edit] Robert Burns Club. Background information. 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. 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 Country: the official Robert Burns site.