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Poet Robert Burns 1759–1796
POET’S REGION Scotland
SCHOOL / PERIOD Romantic
Subjects War & Conflict, Heroes & Patriotism, History & Politics, Social Commentaries
Poetic Terms Rhymed Stanza
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 War & Conflict, Heroes & Patriotism, History & Politics, Social Commentaries
POET’S REGION Scotland
SCHOOL / PERIOD Romantic
Poetic Terms Rhymed Stanza
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