robert burns

     

His poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect, was first published July 31, 1786, in Kilmarnock

Trivia about robert burns

  • This poet died in Dumfries, Scotland in 1796, just aged 37
  • His "Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" was published in 1786 with about half the 600 copies pre-sold
  • He's the national poet of Scotland
  • "Should auld acquaintance be forgot, & never brought to mind?"
  • This poet's birthplace in Alloway, Scotland is adjacent to a museum devoted to him
  • General Cigar Company brand & national poet of Scotland
  • While residing in Dumfries, he wrote "Auld Lang Syne"
  • The poems of Scotland's Robert Fergusson, who died insane at age 24, influenced this "Tam O'Shanter" poet
  • This Scottish poet wrote the songs "Comin' Thro' The Rye" & "The Banks O' Doon"
  • In "To A Louse" he wrote, "O wad some power the giftie gie us, to see our sels as ithers see us!"
  • "The best laid schemes o' mice & men gang aft a-gley"
  • This national poet of Scotland was prolific--he had children out of wedlock with 4 different women
  • His "Elegy on the Year 1788" begins, "For lords or kings I dinna mourn, e'en let them die--for that they're born"
  • On New Year's Eve we should give thanks to this Scottish poet for his "Auld Lang Syne"
  • His poems include "Highland Mary", "The Banks O' Down", & "A Man's A Man For A' That"
  • This Scottish poet's love was "like a red, red rose"
  • His poem "To a Mountain Daisy" was published in 1786 along with "To a Mouse" & "To a Louse"
  • For much of the winter of 1794-95, he served as acting supervisor for Dumfries, Scotland
  • With words like the following, this poet's name could be read as a statement:("Is fair art thou my bonnie lass...")
  • Scottish poet who admitted "The sweetest hours that e'er I spend are spent among the lasses, O"
  • George Thomson's "Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs" contains many of his songs
  • This Scot's affair with a servant lass named Elizabeth produced a child in 1785
  • Shakespeare was "the Bard of Avon"; this Scotsman was "the Bard of Ayrshire"
  • The poem "Highland Mary" is inscribed on the scroll at his statue's feet in Central Park's Literary Walk
  • He was the "Ploughman Poet":RB
  • The poet who wrote, "And I will luve thee still, my dear, till a' the seas gang dry"