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2 giorni fa · Robert Burns was played by John Barrowman. On 25 January 2008, a musical play about the love affair between Robert Burns and Nancy McLehose entitled Clarinda premiered in Edinburgh before touring Scotland.
21 mag 2024 · Robert Burns, national poet of Scotland, who wrote lyrics and songs in Scots and in English. He was also famous for his amours and his rebellion against orthodox religion and morality. He is perhaps best known for writing most of the modern version of the song ‘Auld Lang Syne.’.
- David Daiches
- Robert Burns is considered the national poet of Scotland. Born in 1759 in Alloway, he wrote lyrics and songs in Scots and in English.
- In July 1786 Robert Burns published his first major volume of verse, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect.
- One of Robert Burns’s best-known poems is the mock-heroic “Tam o' Shanter,” published in 1791. He is also well known for his contribution to over t...
- Robert Burns was born into a farming family and raised on a smallholding. This upbringing earned him the name “Ploughman Poet” once he began to be...
- Robert Burns, as a pre-Romantic poet, had a significant influence on the later Romantic poets, such as William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
27 mag 2024 · Burns‘ romantic life was notoriously complicated, and many of the women he loved served as muses for his poetry. In total, Burns fathered 12 children by 4 different women. His wife Jean Armour bore him 9 children alone, though sadly only 3 survived infancy.
5 giorni fa · > Folk Music > Records > Robert Burns. Other recordings of Robert Burns songs. Ewan MacColl, Songs of Robert Burns, LP, Folkways FW 8758, 1959. Ian Campbell, Tam o’ Shanter, LP, Transatlantic XTRA 1074, 1968. Jean Redpath, The Songs of Robert Burns, Volumes 1 & 2, LP, Philo PH 1037, 1976; Philo PH 1048, 1986; CD, Greentrax CDTRAX114, 1996
13 mag 2024 · The Robert Burns Collection houses a rich gathering of primary and secondary works relating to the life and career of 18th-century Scottish poet Robert Burns.
- Maggie Kopp
- 2013
16 mag 2024 · The Poetical Works of Robert Burns/A Vision. For works with similar titles, see A Vision. As I stood by yon roofless tower, Where the wa'flower scents the dewy air, Where the howlet mourns in her ivy bower, And tells the midnight moon her care.
6 giorni fa · A beautiful song by Scotland’s bard, Robert Burns. Written for his close friend Agnes McLehose, Burns wrote Ae Fond Kiss after their final meeting and sent it to her on 27 December 1791 before she departed Edinburgh for Jamaica to be with her estranged husband.
