Robert Burns

Robert Burns is a poet and bards Scottish, the national poet of Scotland, born the January 25th 1759 with Alloway (South Ayrshire) and dead the July 21st 1796 with Dumfries (Dumfries and Galloway). Impassioned and romantic author of many poems and songs of Scottish folk inspiration, of which Auld Lang Syne . It is about the more great author in Scots.

Wire of William Burns, gardener and peasant, Robert accepted only one elementary instruction and worked the ground most of its life; without much success. With Edinburgh, where it settled in 1786, it was regarded by the intellectual and middle-class mediums as poet-peasant . Thanks to the editor James Johnson were published between 1787 and 1803 The Scots Musical Museum , more than 150 Scottish popular songs of various origins which it had worked over again. Between 1793 and 1818 were published in Thomson' S Collection 6 volumes of has Off Select Collection Scottish Airs for the Voice , 114 other popular songs.

Its work, inspired of the life in the countryside, the nature and popular culture and its poetry of a great sensitivity contributed to the blossoming of the Romantisme. It inspired the production of dialectal literature in other countries of Europe.

It was an acid critic of the Église calvinist and aristocracy, which was worth great enmities to him. Its work is recognized in freemasonry.

  • 1786 . Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect first collection of poems as a Scot. The success of the work and the death of its promised in marriage Mary Campbell dissuaded it to emigrate in Jamaica. It leaves to Edinburgh.

  • 1788 . Of return to Mauchline (South Ayrshire), he marries a girl of the country, Jean Armor, who gave him 9 children and moves in in June in a farm with Ellisland, close to Dumfries.
  • 1791 . After its failures in agriculture, it settles in Dumfries to occupy an employment in the tax department. It is filled with enthusiasm for the French revolution but is forced to retract in 1793.

The Jolly Beggars (1790), The Twa Dogs , Auld Lang Syne and Tam o' Shanter are among most famous of its masterpieces.

Its Poésies was translated by Leon de Wailly, 1843. John Gibson Lockhart wrote its Vie , Edinburgh, 1828.

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