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- 2. Synopsis Poet Robert Burns is considered one of the most famous characters of Scotland's Cultural history.
- 3. Alloway Burns was born two miles (3 km) south of Ayr, in Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland, the
- 4. Alloway He had little regular schooling and got much of his education from his father, who
- 5. Burns Cottage in Alloway, Scotland Inside the Burns Cottage Museum in Alloway
- 6. Tarbolton In December 1781, Burns moved temporarily to Irvine, Ayrshire, to learn to become a flax-dresser,
- 7. Mauchline Robert and Gilbert made an ineffectual struggle to keep on the farm, but after its
- 8. Love affairs His first child, Elizabeth Paton Burns (1785–1817), was born to his mother's servant, Elizabeth
- 9. Love affairs At about the same time, Burns fell in love with Mary Campbell, whom he
- 10. Kilmarnock Edition As Burns lacked the funds to pay for his passage to the West Indies,
- 11. Kilmarnock Edition On 31 July 1786 John Wilson published the volume of works by Robert Burns,
- 12. Kilmarnock Edition A copy of it was passed to Burns, who later recalled, "I had taken
- 13. Failing health and death Burns's worldly prospects were perhaps better than they had ever been; but
- 14. Failing health and death On the morning of 21 July 1796, Burns died in Dumfries, at
- 15. Robert Burns Mausoleum at St. Michael's churchyard in Dumfries. Burns statue by David Watson Stevenson (1898)
- 16. Literary style Burns's style is marked by spontaneity, directness, and sincerity, and ranges from the tender
- 17. Literary style His themes included republicanism (he lived during the French Revolutionary period) and Radicalism, which
- 18. Stamps and currency The Soviet Union was the first country in the world to honour Burns
- 19. Stamps and currency Burns was pictured on the Clydesdale Bank £5 note from 1971 to 2009.
- 20. Burns suppers Burns Night, in effect a second national day, is celebrated on Burns's birthday, 25
- 21. Burns suppers The format of Burns suppers has changed little since. The basic format starts with
- 22. Greatest Scot In 2009, STV ran a television series and public vote on who was "The
- 23. Signature
- 24. BIBLIOGRAPHY
- 25. BOOKS Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Kilmarnock: Printed by John Wilson, 1786; revised and enlarged
- 26. COLLECTIONS The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism of
- 27. COLLECTIONS The Works of Robert Burns, 5 volumes, edited by James Hogg and William Motherwell (Glasgow:
- 28. COLLECTIONS The Songs of Robert Burns, edited by J. C. Dick (London & New York: Frowde,
- 29. LETTERS The Letters of Robert Burns, 2 volumes, edited by J. De Lancey Ferguson (Oxford: Clarendon
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