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Robert Burns (1759 -1796)

British (Scottish) poet, folklorist, author of numerous poems and verses.

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Birth name: Robert Burness (to 1786)
Date of birth: January 25, 1759
Place of birth: Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland
Date of death: July 21, 1796
Place of death: Dumfries, Scotland
Citizenship: United Kingdom
Occupation: poet
Years of work: 1774-1796
Direction: Romanticism
Genre: poetry, poems, songs, ballads, anthems, cantatas
Debut: O’ Once I Lov’d a Bonnie Lass (1774)

Robert Burns was born on January 25, 1759 in Scotland. His father William Burnes or William Burness (11 November 1721 - 13 February 1784), the father of Robert Burns was the poet. He retained the spelling 'Burnes' throughout his life, however his son favoured the Ayrshire spelling of “Burns.” He trained as a gardener and then became a farmer. Burnes, a tall, shy, and reserved man, began building a two-roomed cottage on the nursery land at Alloway in 1757. On 15 December he married Agnes Broun, a farmer’s daughter and they remained together for 26 years, until his death.

Burns’ birthplace at Alloway.

Agnes Broun (17 March 1732 – 14 January 1820), or Agnes Burnes was the mother of the poet Robert Burns. Agnes attended a dame school held in a weaver's cottage and learned the psalms by heart, picked up some basic reading skills, but writing was not part of her education and she never even learned to write her own name.

William Burnes grave
in Alloway Kirk

The poet’s childhood and education

There were seven children in the family, and Robert was the eldest. Robert was sent to school at the age of six, but his father could not pay for the two sons, Robert and his brother Gilbert attended school in turn. When not at school, the boys helped their father with his work in the fields. But soon teacher left them, and so Burns’ father invited a young teacher to teach the boys. When the teacher left, father taught the children himself. Reading and writing, arithmetic, English grammar, history, literature, French and Latin – that was Robert Burns’ education.

Robert Burns became fond of reading.
He read whatever he could lay his hands on.
His favourite writers were Shakespeare, Smolett, Robert Fergusson a talented Scottish poet. Fergusson’s tragic fate deeply touched Burns. Burns devoted many verses to Fergusson.

Robert Burns began to write poetry when he has fifteen. He composed verses to the melodies of folk-songs. He sang of the woods, fields and wonderful valleys of his native land.