September 5th photograph of the statue of Robert Burns in Albert Square, Dundee, Scotland. Robert Burns was born near Ayr, Scotland, 25th of January, 1759.
September 5th photograph of the statue of Robert Burns in Albert Square, Dundee, Scotland.
September 5th photograph of the statue of Robert Burns in Albert Square, Dundee, Scotland.
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Robert Burns, the most celebrated of all Scottish poets, is remembered with great devotion. His birthday on 25th January provokes fervour and festivity among Scots and many others the world over. Born in 1759 into miserable rustic poverty, by the age of eighteen Burns had acquired a good knowledge of both classical and English literature. In June 1786 his first collection of verse, Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, which included To a Mouse and The Cotter's Saturday Night, was greeted with huge acclaim by all classes of society. His later poems and ballads include Auld Lang Syne, the beautiful song My Love is like a Red Red Rose, Highland Mary, Scots Wha Hae and his masterpiece, Tam o'Shanter. The Collected Poems of Robert Burns (Wordsworth Poetry Library)
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