Robert Burns selected poems
Main Author: | Burns, Robert, 1759-1796. |
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Other Authors: | McGuirk, Carol. |
Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
London ; New York :
Penguin Books,
1993.
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Item Description: |
Includes indexes. |
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Physical Description: |
xxx, 335 p. ; 20 cm. |
ISBN: |
0140423826 (pbk) 9780140423822 (pbk) |
Author Notes: |
When his father died in 1784, Burns moved the family to the farm Mossgiel about one mile north of the town of Mauchline. Here he continued to work as a farmer and to write poetry. In 1786 Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect was published, which described the existence of the Scottish peasant. Burns's popularity was immediate, if short-lived. After a brief period of fame in Edinburgh, Burns returned to Ayrshire. Burns married Jean Armour in 1788. They moved first to a farm in Ellisland, then to Dumfries, where Burns worked as a tax inspector. In addition to his poetry, Burns is well known for his songwriting. He worked with James Johnson on a project to revise old Scottish tunes and created some new songs of his own. Some favorites include Auld Lang Syne, To a Mountain Daisy, and Tam o' Shanter. Robert Burns died of rheumatic fever on July 21, 1796, at the age of 37. (Bowker Author Biography) |