Robert Burn’s birthday

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Robert Burn’s birthday

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2. Robert Burns (1759- 1796)
3. Robert Burns, Scotland's national poet, was born on January 25, 1759 in Scotland. He died in
4. His father, William Burns, was a poor farmer. There were seven children in the family, and
5. His father knew the value of a good education, and he tried to give his children
6. When not at school, the boys helped their father with his work in the fields. But
7. When the teacher left, the poet's father taught the children himself. Reading and writing, arithmetic, English
8. Robert's mother knew many Scottish songs and ballads and often sang them to her son in
9. Robert Burns became fond of reading. His favourite writers were Shakespeare, Smolett, Robert Fergusson. Shakespeare Smolett
10. Robert Burns began to write poetry when he was fifteen. He composed verses to the melodies
11. Burns published some of his poems in 1786. Their success was complete. And Robert Burns became
12. When Burns came to Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, a new and enlarged edition of his
13. Robert Burns left Edinburgh and returned to his native village with money enough to buy a
14. Burns devoted to Jean many beautiful poems, such as "I love my Jean", "Bonnie Jean" and
15. Though Robert Burns's poems were very popular, he always remained poor. The poetry and songs of
16. Robert Burns's poems and verses inspired Beethoven, Schumann, Mendelssohn and other composers who wrote music to
17. Burns was a democratic poet. His sympathy was with the poor. That is why his funeral
18. They were the common Scottish people whom he had loved and for whom he had written
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Robert Burns
(1759- 1796)

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Robert Burns, Scotland's national poet, was born on January 25, 1759

in Scotland. He died in poverty at the age of thirty — seven in 1796.

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His father, William Burns, was a poor farmer. There were seven

children in the family, and Robert was the eldest.

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His father knew the value of a good education, and he

tried to give his children the best education he could afford. Robert was sent to school at the age of six, but as his father could not pay for the two sons, Robert and his brother Gilbert attended school in turn.

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When not at school, the boys helped their father with his

work in the fields. But soon the teacher left, and so Burns's father invited a young school teacher to teach the boys.

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When the teacher left, the poet's father taught the children himself.

Reading and writing, arithmetic, English grammar, history, literature, and Latin - that was Robert Burns's education.

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Robert's mother knew many Scottish songs and ballads and often sang

them to her son in his childhood.

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Robert Burns became fond of reading. His favourite writers were Shakespeare,

Smolett, Robert Fergusson.

Shakespeare

Smolett

Fergusson

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Robert Burns began to write poetry when he was fifteen. He

composed verses to the melodies of old folk-songs, which he had admired from his early childhood. He sang about the woods, fields and wonderful valleys of his native land.

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Burns published some of his poems in 1786. Their success was

complete. And Robert Burns became well known and popular.

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When Burns came to Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, a

new and enlarged edition of his poems was published. But soon Edinburgh society grew tired of him and forgot about the poet.

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Robert Burns left Edinburgh and returned to his native village with

money enough to buy a farm and marry Jean Armour.

Jean Armour

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Burns devoted to Jean many beautiful poems, such as "I love

my Jean", "Bonnie Jean" and many others.

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Though Robert Burns's poems were very popular, he always remained poor.

The poetry and songs of Robert Burns are famous all over the world.

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Robert Burns's poems and verses inspired Beethoven, Schumann, Mendelssohn and other

composers who wrote music to them.

Beethoven

Schumann

Mendelssohn

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Burns was a democratic poet. His sympathy was with the poor.

That is why his funeral was attended by a crowd of ten thousand.

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They were the common Scottish people whom he had loved

and for whom he had written his poems and songs. The most popular poems of Robert Burns are "The Tree of Liberty", "My Heart's in the Highlands", "A Red, Red Rose" and many others.