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Robert Burns

Born

in Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland

January 25, 1759

Died

July 21, 1796

Genre

Poetry

Influences

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Robert Burns (also known as Robin) was a Scottish poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language. He also wrote in English and a "light" Scots, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland.

He is regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic movement and after his death became a great source of inspiration to the founders of both liberalism and socialism. A cultural icon in Scotland and among the Scottish Diaspora around the world, celebration of his life and work became almost a national charismatic cult during the 19th and 20th centuries, and his influence has long been strong on Scottish literature.

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Average rating: 4.07 · 14,951 ratings · 1,374 reviews · 2,636 distinct works • Similar authors

	Poems and Songs 4.06 avg rating — 2,365 ratings — published 1906 — 279 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Collected Poems of Robert Burns 4.13 avg rating — 929 ratings — published 1801 — 752 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Poems by Robert Burns, Carol McGuirk 3.90 avg rating — 607 ratings — published 1898 — 188 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tam o' Shanter 3.99 avg rating — 357 ratings — published 1791 — 78 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Complete Works of Robert Burns 4.30 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 1835 — 534 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	В цъфналата ръж by Robert Burns, Робърт Бърнс, Владимир Свинтила (translator) 4.24 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Robert Burns: Selected Poems and Songs 4.06 avg rating — 158 ratings — published 1977 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To a Mouse 3.77 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 1785	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Burns by Robert Burns, Gerard Carruthers (Editor) 4.02 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Night Out with Robert Burns by Robert Burns, Andrew O'Hagan (Editor) 3.98 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 2008 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Robert Burns (?)

“We two have paddled in the stream,
from morning sun till dine;
But seas between us broad have roared
since days of long ago.”
― Robert Burns

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“My love is like a red, red rose
That's newly sprung in June:
My love is like the melody
That's sweetly played in tune.

How fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in love am I;
And I will love thee still, my dear,
Till all the seas gang dry.

Till all the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt with the sun;
I will love thee still, my dear,
While the sands of life shall run.

And fare thee weel, my only love.
And fare thee weel awhile!
And I will come again, my love,
Though it were ten thousand mile.”
― Robert Burns

tags: poetry

190 likes

“But to see her was to love her,
Love but her, and love forever.”
― Robert Burns

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Polls

Who is your favorite poet?

Emily Dickinson

61 votes, 9.3%

Edgar Allan Poe

53 votes, 8.1%

Sylvia Plath

32 votes, 4.9%

William Shakespeare

28 votes, 4.3%

Robert Frost

25 votes, 3.8%

T. S. Eliot (write-in)

25 votes, 3.8%

William Blake (write-in)

22 votes, 3.4%

William Butler Yeats

19 votes, 2.9%

Not sure yet (write-in)

19 votes, 2.9%

Walt Whitman (write-in)

18 votes, 2.8%

Percy Bysshe Shelley

17 votes, 2.6%

Edna St. Vincent Millay

16 votes, 2.4%

Edgar Allan Poe, Shelley, Shakespeare and Jim Morrison, also Alfred Noyes

16 votes, 2.4%

Alfred Tennyson

14 votes, 2.1%

Mary Oliver (write-in)

14 votes, 2.1%

Robert frost (write-in)

13 votes, 2.0%

Robert Burns

11 votes, 1.7%

Bob Dylan

11 votes, 1.7%

Franz Kafka (write-in)

11 votes, 1.7%

Jon Keats (write-in)

11 votes, 1.7%

I'm not a fan of poetry

10 votes, 1.5%

Lord Byron (write-in)

10 votes, 1.5%

Christina Rossetti

8 votes, 1.2%

W. H. Auden (write-in)

8 votes, 1.2%

W.B. Yeats (write-in)

8 votes, 1.2%

Pablo Neruda (write-in)

8 votes, 1.2%

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

7 votes, 1.1%

Seamus Heaney (write-in)

7 votes, 1.1%

Charles Baudelaire

7 votes, 1.1%

You shouldn't let poets lie to you. (write-in)

7 votes, 1.1%

I don't have one

7 votes, 1.1%

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (write-in)

6 votes, 0.9%

Andrew Hozier-Byrne (write-in)

5 votes, 0.8%

Dante Alighieri (write-in)

5 votes, 0.8%

Carl Sandburg

4 votes, 0.6%

Jim Morrison (write-in)

4 votes, 0.6%

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4 votes, 0.6%

Wilfred Owen (write-in)

4 votes, 0.6%

A. S. Pushkin (write-in)

4 votes, 0.6%

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3 votes, 0.5%

Edward Lear (write-in)

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Anne Sexton

3 votes, 0.5%

Matsuo Basho (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

Arthur Rimbaud (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

Paul Celan (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

Rabindera Nath Tagore (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

James Joyce (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

Mahmoud Darwish (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

Clement Clarke Moore

2 votes, 0.3%

Robert Louis Stevenson

2 votes, 0.3%

Stephen Vincent Benét

2 votes, 0.3%

juana de ibarbourou (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

Hugo Claus (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

Theodor Geisel (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

San Juan de la Cruz (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

John Keats and Giacomo Leopardi (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

Sara Teasdale (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

Georg Trakl (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

Victor Hugo (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

Ivan Vazov (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

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2 votes, 0.3%

Lang Leav (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

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2 votes, 0.3%

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2 votes, 0.3%

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2 votes, 0.3%

Amanda Gorman (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

James Whitcomb Riley

1 vote, 0.2%

Alfred Noyes

1 vote, 0.2%

Frank O'Hara (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

1 vote, 0.2%

Robert Service (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Herman Hesse (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Rachel Rooney (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Marin Sorescu (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Carol Ann Duffy (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Dylan Thomas (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Alejandra Pizarnik (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

William wordsworth (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Sappho (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Rakim, Nas (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Tracy K. Smith (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

A. E. Housman (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Big L

0 votes, 0.0%

Sonya Sones

0 votes, 0.0%

Cemal Süreya

0 votes, 0.0%

Cemal Süreya & Dulce María Loynaz

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William McGonagall (write-in)

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