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Robert Burns

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Robert Burns
The best-known portrait of Burns, by Alexander Nasmyth, 1787 (detail)
The best-known portrait of Burns,
by Alexander Nasmyth, 1787 (detail)
Born(1759-01-25)25 January 1759
Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland
Died21 July 1796(1796-07-21) (aged 37)
Dumfries, Scotland
Occupation
  • Poet
  • lyricist
  • farmer
  • exciseman
NationalityScottish
CitizenshipBritish
Literary movementRomanticism
Notable works

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Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 1796) was a famous poet born in Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland.[1] Some of his most famous poems include To A Mouse, Auld Lang Syne, and Tam o Shanter. Burns is seen as the national poet of Scotland. Much of his work is written in broad Scots, a sister language to English. His poem and song A Man's A Man For A' That was sung at the opening of the Scottish Parliament in 1999. "To A Louse, On Seeing One on a Lady's Bonnet at Church" is a 1786 Scots poem by Robert Burns.

Burns died at 37, and is buried in the graveyard of St Michael's Church, Dumfries, Scotland.

  1. "Robert Burns". Academy of American Poets. Retrieved 2008-12-23.

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