A Red, Red Rose
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Poet Robert Burns 1759–1796
POET’S REGION Scotland
SCHOOL / PERIOD Romantic
Subjects Music, Living, Love, Time & Brevity, Nature, Arts & Sciences, Relationships, Trees & Flowers, Romantic Love, Classic Love
Occasions Anniversary, Engagement, Weddings
Holidays Valentine's Day
Poetic Terms Common Measure, Ballad
Biography
Born on 25 January 1759 in Alloway, Scotland, to William and Agnes Brown Burnes, Robert Burns followed his father's example by becoming a tenant farmer. Unlike William Burnes, however, Burns was able to escape the vicissitudes and vagaries of the soil in two ways: toward the end of his life he became an excise collector in Dumfries, where he died in 1796; and throughout his life he was a practicing poet. As a poet he recorded . . .
Poems by Robert Burns
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SUBJECT Music, Living, Love, Time & Brevity, Nature, Arts & Sciences, Relationships, Trees & Flowers, Romantic Love, Classic Love
POET’S REGION Scotland
SCHOOL / PERIOD Romantic
Poetic Terms Common Measure, Ballad
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