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Linn Records have completed their landmark recording of all Burns songs, available as individual CDs or a 12 volume presentation box set. We have full details. The finest Scottish shopping site in the world, with the world's largest choice of kilts and tartans , exclusive jewelry, Highland Dress, Bagpipes and piping supplies, cashmere, and much more. Buying from these sites helps pay for the upkeep of Burns Country! Welcome to. Search This Site. Is there for honest Poverty That hings his head, an' a' that; The coward slave-we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that! For a' that, an' a' that. Poetry for Teens. Lesson Plans. Resources for Teachers. Academy of American Poets. American Poets Magazine. Poems Find and share the perfect poems. For a' that, an' a' that. Afton Water Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise; My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. Thou stock-dove whose echo resounds through the glen, Ye wild whistling blackbirds in yon thorny den, Thou green-crested lapwing, thy screaming forbear, I charge you disturb not my slumbering fair. How lofty, sweet Afton, thy neighboring hills, Far marked with the courses of clear winding rills; There daily I wander as noon rises high, My flocks and my Mary's sweet cot in my eye. How pleasant thy banks and green valleys below, Where wild in the woodlands the primroses blow; There oft as mild evening weeps over the lea, The sweet-scented birk shades my Mary and me. Thy crystal stream, Afton, how lovely it glides, And winds by the cot where my Mary resides; How wanton thy waters her snowy feet lave, As gathering sweet flowerets she stems thy clear wave. Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, sweet river, the theme of my lays; My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dreams. Robert Burns Yet in thy presence, lovely Fair, To hope may be forgiven; For sure 'twere impious to despair So much in sight of heaven. How I wad mourn when it was torn By Autumn wild, and Winter rude! Arguably his claim to immortality chiefly rests on these volumes, which placed him in the front rank of lyric poets. As a songwriter he provided his own lyrics, sometimes adapted from traditional words. He put words to Scottish folk melodies and airs which he collected, and composed his own arrangements of the music including modifying tunes or recreating melodies on the basis of fragments. In letters he explained that he preferred simplicity, relating songs to spoken language which should be sung in traditional ways. The original instruments would be fiddle and the guitar of the period which was akin to a cittern , but the transcription of songs for piano has resulted in them usually being performed in classical concert or music hall styles. Thomson as a publisher commissioned arrangements of "Scottish, Welsh and Irish Airs" by such eminent composers of the day as Franz Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven , with new lyrics. The contributors of lyrics included Burns. While such arrangements had wide popular appeal, [20] [21] [22] [23] Beethoven's music was more advanced and difficult to play than Thomson intended. My way is: I consider the poetic sentiment, correspondent to my idea of the musical expression, then chuse my theme, begin one stanza, when that is composed—which is generally the most difficult part of the business—I walk out, sit down now and then, look out for objects in nature around me that are in unison or harmony with the cogitations of my fancy and workings of my bosom, humming every now and then the air with the verses I have framed. Burns also worked to collect and preserve Scottish folk songs , sometimes revising, expanding, and adapting them. One of the better known of these collections is The Merry Muses of Caledonia the title is not Burns's , a collection of bawdy lyrics that were popular in the music halls of Scotland as late as the 20th century. Burns sent the poem anonymously in to the Glasgow Courier. Many of Burns's most famous poems are songs with the music based upon older traditional songs. Burns's worldly prospects were perhaps better than they had ever been; but he had become soured, and had alienated many of his friends by freely expressing sympathy with the French and American Revolutions, for the advocates of democratic reform and votes for all men and the Society of the Friends of the People which advocated Parliamentary Reform. His political views came to the notice of his employers, to which he pleaded his innocence. Burns met other radicals at the Globe Inn Dumfries. He went on long journeys on horseback, often in harsh weather conditions as an Excise Supervisor. He was kept very busy — as the exciseman, doing reports, father of four young children, song collector and songwriter. As his health began to give way, he began to age prematurely and fell into fits of despondency. On the morning of 21 July , Burns died in Dumfries, at the age of The funeral took place on Monday 25 July , the day that his son Maxwell was born. He was at first buried in the far corner of St. Michael's Churchyard in Dumfries; a simple "slab of freestone" was erected as his gravestone by Jean Armour, which some felt insulting to his memory. Armour had taken steps to secure his personal property, partly by liquidating two promissory notes amounting to fifteen pounds sterling about 1, pounds at prices. James Currie. Subscriptions were raised to meet the initial cost of publication, which was in the hands of Thomas Cadell and William Davies in London and William Creech, bookseller in Edinburgh. Burns was posthumously given the freedom of the town of Dumfries. Through his twelve children, Burns has over living descendants as of Burns's style is marked by spontaneity, directness, and sincerity, and ranges from the tender intensity of some of his lyrics through the humour of "Tam o' Shanter" and the satire of "Holy Willie's Prayer" and "The Holy Fair". Burns's poetry drew upon a substantial familiarity with and knowledge of Classical , Biblical , and English literature , as well as the Scottish Makar tradition. Some of his works, such as "Love and Liberty" also known as "The Jolly Beggars" , are written in both Scots and English for various effects. His themes included republicanism he lived during the French Revolutionary period and Radicalism , which he expressed covertly in " Scots Wha Hae ", Scottish patriotism , anticlericalism , class inequalities, gender roles, commentary on the Scottish Kirk of his time, Scottish cultural identity, poverty, sexuality, and the beneficial aspects of popular socialising carousing, Scotch whisky, folk songs, and so forth. The strong emotional highs and lows associated with many of Burns's poems have led some, such as Burns biographer Robert Crawford, [38] to suggest that he suffered from manic depression —a hypothesis that has been supported by analysis of various samples of his handwriting. Burns himself referred to suffering from episodes of what he called "blue devilism". The National Trust for Scotland has downplayed the suggestion on the grounds that evidence is insufficient to support the claim. The Edinburgh literati worked to sentimentalise Burns during his life and after his death, dismissing his education by calling him a "heaven-taught ploughman". Burns influenced later Scottish writers, especially Hugh MacDiarmid , who fought to dismantle what he felt had become a sentimental cult that dominated Scottish literature. While this may not be so obvious in Service's English verse, which is Kiplingesque, it is more readily apparent in his Scots verse. Scottish Canadians have embraced Robert Burns as a kind of patron poet and mark his birthday with festivities. Lincoln composed a toast. The author J. Salinger used protagonist Holden Caulfield's misinterpretation of Burns's poem " Comin' Through the Rye " as his title and a main interpretation of Caulfield's grasping to his childhood in his novel The Catcher in the Rye. The poem, actually about a rendezvous, is thought by Caulfield to be about saving people from falling out of childhood. Burns became the "people's poet" of Russia. In Imperial Russia Burns was translated into Russian and became a source of inspiration for the ordinary, oppressed Russian people. In Soviet Russia, he was elevated as the archetypal poet of the people. As a great admirer of the egalitarian ethos behind the American and French Revolutions who expressed his own egalitarianism in poems such as his "Birthday Ode for George Washington" or his " Is There for Honest Poverty " commonly known as "A Man's a Man for a' that" , Burns was well placed for endorsement by the Communist regime as a "progressive" artist. A new translation of Burns begun in by Samuil Marshak proved enormously popular, selling over , copies. He remains popular in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union. Burns clubs have been founded worldwide. The first one, known as The Mother Club, was founded in Greenock in by merchants born in Ayrshire , some of whom had known Burns. It includes: the humble Burns Cottage where he was born and spent the first years of his life, a modern museum building which houses more than 5, Burns artefacts including his handwritten manuscripts, the historic Alloway Auld Kirk and Brig o Doon which feature in Burns's masterpiece 'Tam o Shanter', and the Burns Monument which was erected in Burns's honour and finished in Ellisland Farm in Auldgirth , which he owned from to , is maintained as a working farm with a museum and interpretation centre by the Friends of Ellisland Farm. Significant 19th-century monuments to him stand in Alloway, Leith, and Dumfries. An early 20th-century replica of his birthplace cottage belonging to the Burns Club Atlanta stands in Atlanta , Georgia. These are part of a large list of Burns memorials and statues around the world. In the suburb of Summerhill, Dumfries , the majority of the streets have names with Burns connotations. A British Rail Standard Class 7 steam locomotive was named after him, along with a later Class 87 electric locomotive, No. Several streets surrounding the Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. It stood until when it was relocated downtown, sparking protests from the neighbourhood, literary fans, and preservationists of Olmsted's vision for the Back Bay Fens. In November , Burns was awarded the title Honorary Chartered Surveyor [61] by The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, the only posthumous membership so far granted by the institution. The oldest statue of Burns is in the town of Camperdown, Victoria. The Soviet Union was the first country in the world to honour Burns with a commemorative stamp, marking the th anniversary of his death in The Royal Mail has issued postage stamps commemorating Burns three times. In , two stamps were issued, priced fourpence and one shilling and threepence, both carrying Burns's portrait. In , an issue commemorating the bicentenary of his death comprised four stamps, priced 19p, 25p, 41p and 60p and including quotes from Burns's poems. On 22 January , two stamps were issued by the Royal Mail to commemorate the th anniversary of Burns's birth. In the Royal Mint issued a commemorative two pound coin featuring a quote from "Auld Lang Syne". In , singer Jean Redpath , in collaboration with composer Serge Hovey , started to record all of Burns's songs, with a mixture of traditional and Burns's own compositions. The project ended when Hovey died, after seven of the planned twenty-two volumes were completed. In , a musical about Burns's life called Red Red Rose won third place at a competition for new musicals in Denmark. Robert Burns was played by John Barrowman. Alfred B. Burns Night, in effect a second national day , is celebrated on Burns's birthday, 25 January, with Burns suppers around the world, and is more widely observed in Scotland than the official national day, St. Andrew's Day. The first Burns supper in The Mother Club in Greenock was held on what was thought to be his birthday on 29 January ; in it was discovered from the Ayr parish records that the correct date was 25 January The format of Burns suppers has changed little since. The basic format starts with a general welcome and announcements, followed with the Selkirk Grace. After the grace comes the piping and cutting of the haggis , when Burns's famous " Address to a Haggis " is read and the haggis is cut open. The event usually allows for people to start eating just after the haggis is presented. At the end of the meal, a series of toasts, often including a 'Toast to the Lassies', and replies are made. This is when the toast to "the immortal memory", an overview of Burns's life and work, is given. The event usually concludes with the singing of "Auld Lang Syne". Robert Burns won, narrowly beating William Wallace. Biographical information Works written by or about Robert Burns at Wikisource. Quotations related to Robert Burns at Wikiquote. Media related to Robert Burns at Wikimedia Commons. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Scottish poet and lyricist. For other people named Robert Burns, see Robert Burns disambiguation. Poet lyricist farmer excise-man. This section needs additional citations for verification. For a' That and a' That by Robert Burns | Poetry Foundation

Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, sweet river, the theme of my lays; My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dreams. Robert Burns Yet in thy presence, lovely Fair, To hope may be forgiven; For sure 'twere impious to despair So much in sight of heaven. How I wad mourn when it was torn By Autumn wild, and Winter rude! But I wad sing on wanton wing, When youthfu' May its bloom renew'd. O gin my love were yon red rose, That grows upon the castle wa'; And I myself a drap o' dew, Into her bonie breast to fa'! O there, beyond expression blest, I'd feast on beauty a' the night; Seal'd on her silk-saft faulds to rest, Till fley'd awa by Phoebus' light! Mortality O why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a fast-flitting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passes from life to his rest in the grave. The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade, Be scattered around, and together be laid; And the young and the old, and the low and the high, Shall moulder to dust, and together shall lie. The child that a mother attended and loved, The mother that infant's affection that proved; The husband that mother and infant that blessed, Each, all, are away to their dwelling of rest. The maid on whose cheek, on whose brow, in whose eye, Shone beauty and pleasure,—her triumphs are by; And the memory of those that beloved her and praised Are alike from the minds of the living erased. The hand of the king that the scepter hath borne, The brow of the priest that the miter hath worn, The eye of the sage, and the heart of the brave, Are hidden and lost in the depths of the grave. The peasant whose lot was to sow and to reap, The herdsman who climbed with his goats to the steep, The beggar that wandered in search of his bread, Have faded away like the grass that we tread. The saint that enjoyed the communion of heaven, The sinner that dared to remain unforgiven, The wise and the foolish, the guilty and just, Have quietly mingled their bones in the dust. So the multitude goes, like the flower and the weed That wither away to let others succeed; So the multitude comes, even those we behold, To repeat every tale that hath often been told. For we are the same that our fathers have been; We see the same sights that our fathers have seen,— We drink the same stream,and we feel the same sun, And we run the same course that our fathers have run. The thoughts we are thinking, our fathers would think; From the death we are shrinking, they too would shrink; To the life we are clinging to, they too would cling; But it speeds from the earth like a bird on the wing. They loved, but the story we cannot unfold; They scorned, but the heart of the haughty is cold; They grieved, but no wail from their slumber may come; They enjoyed, but the voice of their gladness is dumb. They died, ay! William Knox Academy of American Poets Educator Newsletter. Teach This Poem. Follow Us. Find Poets. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Robert Burns and All That , please sign up. Be the first to ask a question about Robert Burns and All That. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. All Languages. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Robert Burns and All That. Dominique Perret rated it really liked it May 24, Miriam rated it it was amazing Jan 19, Joanna rated it it was ok Nov 03, Jasmine Beatrice rated it really liked it Oct 11, D J Chapman rated it liked it Dec 08, Suzanne Mcleish rated it it was amazing Feb 22, C rated it liked it Feb 21, Mary rated it it was amazing Apr 22, Jane Burnett rated it it was amazing Feb 21, Gillian rated it it was amazing Oct 14, Noora rated it liked it Nov 06, Alan Grant rated it it was amazing Jan 18, Patricia rated it it was amazing Jan 14, Hannah Kennedy added it Sep 01, Charles Herriot is currently reading it Mar 24, Juliet added it Apr 11, Emma marked it as to-read May 19, Christina West marked it as to-read Sep 25, Burak Buke added it Dec 26, Anita added it Jun 16, Tracy Dobbins marked it as to-read Mar 08, Mjspice marked it as to-read Jan 25, Elizabeth Hurlburt marked it as to-read Jun 28, Renee Weasley marked it as to-read Sep 01, Christopher Martin marked it as to-read Nov 22, Inez marked it as to-read May 01, A Man's A Man for A' That - Wikipedia

The finest Scottish shopping site in the world, with the world's largest choice of kilts and tartans , exclusive jewelry, Highland Dress, Bagpipes and piping supplies, cashmere, and much more. Buying from these sites helps pay for the upkeep of Burns Country! Welcome to. Search This Site. Is there for honest Poverty That hings his head, an' a' that; The coward slave-we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that! For a' that, an' a' that. Our toils obscure an' a' that, The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The Man's the gowd for a' that. What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin grey, an' a that; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine; A Man's a Man for a' that: For a' that, and a' that, Their tinsel show, an' a' that; The honest man, tho' e'er sae poor, Is king o' men for a' that. Like his father, Burns was a tenant farmer. However, toward the end of his life he became an excise collector in Dumfries, where he died in ; throughout his life Prose Home Harriet Blog. Visit Home Events Exhibitions Library. Newsletter Subscribe Give. Poetry Foundation. Back to Previous. For a' That and a' That. By Robert Burns. Is there, for honest poverty,. Our toils obscure, an' a' that;. The rank is but the guinea's stamp;. The man's the gowd for a' that,. He acquired a superficial reading knowledge of French and a bare smattering of Latin, and he read most of the important 18th-century English writers as well as Shakespeare , Milton , and Dryden. Proud, restless, and full of a nameless ambition, the young Burns did his share of hard work on the farm. He took sides against the dominant extreme Calvinist wing of the church in Ayrshire and championed a local gentleman, Gavin Hamilton , who had got into trouble with the kirk session a church court for Sabbath breaking. But these were not spontaneous effusions by an almost illiterate peasant. Burns was a conscious craftsman; his entries in the commonplace book that he had begun in reveal that from the beginning he was interested in the technical problems of versification. Though he wrote poetry for his own amusement and that of his friends, Burns remained restless and dissatisfied. He won the reputation of being a dangerous rebel against orthodox religion, and, when in he fell in love with Jean Armour, her father refused to allow her to marry Burns even though a child was on the way and under Scots law mutual consent followed by consummation constituted a legal marriage. Jean was persuaded by her father to go back on her promise. Robert, hurt and enraged, took up with another woman, Mary Campbell, who died soon after. On September 3 Jean bore him twins out of wedlock. Meanwhile, the farm was not prospering, and Burns, harassed by insoluble problems, thought of emigrating. But he first wanted to show his country what he could do. In the midst of his troubles he went ahead with his plans for publishing a volume of his poems at the nearby town of Kilmarnock. Its success was immediate and overwhelming. Simple country folk and sophisticated Edinburgh critics alike hailed it, and the upshot was that Burns set out for Edinburgh on November 27, , to be lionized, patronized , and showered with well-meant but dangerous advice.

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But I wad sing on wanton wing, When youthfu' May its bloom renew'd. O gin my love were yon red rose, That grows upon the castle wa'; And I myself a drap o' dew, Into her bonie breast to fa'! O there, beyond expression blest, I'd feast on beauty a' the night; Seal'd on her silk-saft faulds to rest, Till fley'd awa by Phoebus' light! Mortality O why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a fast-flitting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passes from life to his rest in the grave. The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade, Be scattered around, and together be laid; And the young and the old, and the low and the high, Shall moulder to dust, and together shall lie. The child that a mother attended and loved, The mother that infant's affection that proved; The husband that mother and infant that blessed, Each, all, are away to their dwelling of rest. The maid on whose cheek, on whose brow, in whose eye, Shone beauty and pleasure,—her triumphs are by; And the memory of those that beloved her and praised Are alike from the minds of the living erased. The hand of the king that the scepter hath borne, The brow of the priest that the miter hath worn, The eye of the sage, and the heart of the brave, Are hidden and lost in the depths of the grave. The peasant whose lot was to sow and to reap, The herdsman who climbed with his goats to the steep, The beggar that wandered in search of his bread, Have faded away like the grass that we tread. The saint that enjoyed the communion of heaven, The sinner that dared to remain unforgiven, The wise and the foolish, the guilty and just, Have quietly mingled their bones in the dust. So the multitude goes, like the flower and the weed That wither away to let others succeed; So the multitude comes, even those we behold, To repeat every tale that hath often been told. For we are the same that our fathers have been; We see the same sights that our fathers have seen,— We drink the same stream,and we feel the same sun, And we run the same course that our fathers have run. The thoughts we are thinking, our fathers would think; From the death we are shrinking, they too would shrink; To the life we are clinging to, they too would cling; But it speeds from the earth like a bird on the wing. They loved, but the story we cannot unfold; They scorned, but the heart of the haughty is cold; They grieved, but no wail from their slumber may come; They enjoyed, but the voice of their gladness is dumb. They died, ay! William Knox Academy of American Poets Educator Newsletter. Teach This Poem. Follow Us. Find Poets. Poetry Near You. Jobs for Poets. Read Stanza. Privacy Policy. Her brother fell ill with typhus , which she also caught while nursing him. She died of typhus on 20 or 21 October and was buried there. As Burns lacked the funds to pay for his passage to the West Indies, Gavin Hamilton suggested that he should "publish his poems in the mean time by subscription, as a likely way of getting a little money to provide him more liberally in necessaries for Jamaica. To obtain a certificate that he was a free bachelor, Burns agreed on 25 June to stand for rebuke in the Mauchline kirk for three Sundays. He transferred his share in Mossgiel farm to his brother Gilbert on 22 July, and on 30 July wrote to tell his friend John Richmond that, "Armour has got a warrant to throw me in jail until I can find a warrant for an enormous sum I am wandering from one friend's house to another. The success of the work was immediate, and soon he was known across the country. Burns postponed his planned emigration to Jamaica on 1 September, and was at Mossgiel two days later when he learnt that Jean Armour had given birth to twins. On 4 September Thomas Blacklock wrote a letter expressing admiration for the poetry in the Kilmarnock volume, and suggesting an enlarged second edition. The Doctor belonged to a set of critics for whose applause I had not dared to hope. His opinion that I would meet with encouragement in Edinburgh for a second edition, fired me so much, that away I posted for that city, without a single acquaintance, or a single letter of introduction. On 27 November Burns borrowed a pony and set out for Edinburgh. On 14 December William Creech issued subscription bills for the first Edinburgh edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish dialect , which was published on 17 April Within a week of this event, Burns had sold his copyright to Creech for guineas. Nasmyth had come to know Burns and his fresh and appealing image has become the basis for almost all subsequent representations of the poet. Here he encountered, and made a lasting impression on, the year-old Walter Scott , who described him later with great admiration:. His person was strong and robust; his manners rustic, not clownish, a sort of dignified plainness and simplicity which received part of its effect perhaps from knowledge of his extraordinary talents. His features are presented in Mr Nasmyth's picture but to me it conveys the idea that they are diminished, as if seen in perspective. I think his countenance was more massive than it looks in any of the portraits It was large, and of a dark cast, and literally glowed when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time. His stay in the city also resulted in some lifelong friendships, among which were those with Lord Glencairn , and Frances Anna Dunlop — , who became his occasional sponsor and with whom he corresponded for many years until a rift developed. He embarked on a relationship with the separated Agnes "Nancy" McLehose — , with whom he exchanged passionate letters under pseudonyms Burns called himself "Sylvander" and Nancy "Clarinda". When it became clear that Nancy would not be easily seduced into a physical relationship, Burns moved on to Jenny Clow — , Nancy's domestic servant, who bore him a son, Robert Burns Clow, in He also had an affair with a servant girl, Margaret "May" Cameron. His relationship with Nancy concluded in with a final meeting in Edinburgh before she sailed to Jamaica for what turned out to be a short-lived reconciliation with her estranged husband. Before she left, he sent her the manuscript of " Ae Fond Kiss " as a farewell. In Edinburgh, in early , he met James Johnson, a struggling music engraver and music seller with a love of old Scots songs and a determination to preserve them. Burns shared this interest and became an enthusiastic contributor to The Scots Musical Museum. The first volume was published in and included three songs by Burns. He contributed 40 songs to volume two, and he ended up responsible for about a third of the songs in the whole collection, as well as making a considerable editorial contribution. The final volume was published in On his return from Edinburgh in February , he resumed his relationship with Jean Armour and took a lease on Ellisland Farm, Dumfriesshire, settling there in June. He also trained as a gauger or exciseman in case farming continued to be unsuccessful. He was appointed to duties in Customs and Excise in and eventually gave up the farm in Meanwhile, in November , he had written his masterpiece, the narrative poem " Tam O' Shanter ". The Ellisland farm beside the river Nith, now holds a unique collection of Burns's books, artefacts, and manuscripts and is mostly preserved as when Burns and his young family lived there, and is well worth a visit. About this time he was offered and declined an appointment in London on the staff of The Star newspaper, [17] and refused to become a candidate for a newly created Chair of Agriculture in the University of Edinburgh , [17] although influential friends offered to support his claims. He did however accept membership of the Royal Company of Archers in After giving up his farm, he removed to Dumfries. It was at this time that, being requested to write lyrics for The Melodies of Scotland , he responded by contributing over songs. Arguably his claim to immortality chiefly rests on these volumes, which placed him in the front rank of lyric poets. As a songwriter he provided his own lyrics, sometimes adapted from traditional words. He put words to Scottish folk melodies and airs which he collected, and composed his own arrangements of the music including modifying tunes or recreating melodies on the basis of fragments. In letters he explained that he preferred simplicity, relating songs to spoken language which should be sung in traditional ways. The original instruments would be fiddle and the guitar of the period which was akin to a cittern , but the transcription of songs for piano has resulted in them usually being performed in classical concert or music hall styles. Thomson as a publisher commissioned arrangements of "Scottish, Welsh and Irish Airs" by such eminent composers of the day as Franz Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven , with new lyrics. The contributors of lyrics included Burns. While such arrangements had wide popular appeal, [20] [21] [22] [23] Beethoven's music was more advanced and difficult to play than Thomson intended. My way is: I consider the poetic sentiment, correspondent to my idea of the musical expression, then chuse my theme, begin one stanza, when that is composed—which is generally the most difficult part of the business—I walk out, sit down now and then, look out for objects in nature around me that are in unison or harmony with the cogitations of my fancy and workings of my bosom, humming every now and then the air with the verses I have framed. Burns also worked to collect and preserve Scottish folk songs , sometimes revising, expanding, and adapting them. One of the better known of these collections is The Merry Muses of Caledonia the title is not Burns's , a collection of bawdy lyrics that were popular in the music halls of Scotland as late as the 20th century. Burns sent the poem anonymously in to the Glasgow Courier. Many of Burns's most famous poems are songs with the music based upon older traditional songs. Burns's worldly prospects were perhaps better than they had ever been; but he had become soured, and had alienated many of his friends by freely expressing sympathy with the French and American Revolutions, for the advocates of democratic reform and votes for all men and the Society of the Friends of the People which advocated Parliamentary Reform. His political views came to the notice of his employers, to which he pleaded his innocence. Burns met other radicals at the Globe Inn Dumfries. He went on long journeys on horseback, often in harsh weather conditions as an Excise Supervisor. He was kept very busy — as the exciseman, doing reports, father of four young children, song collector and songwriter. As his health began to give way, he began to age prematurely and fell into fits of despondency. On the morning of 21 July , Burns died in Dumfries, at the age of The funeral took place on Monday 25 July , the day that his son Maxwell was born. He was at first buried in the far corner of St. Michael's Churchyard in Dumfries; a simple "slab of freestone" was erected as his gravestone by Jean Armour, which some felt insulting to his memory. Armour had taken steps to secure his personal property, partly by liquidating two promissory notes amounting to fifteen pounds sterling about 1, pounds at prices. James Currie. Subscriptions were raised to meet the initial cost of publication, which was in the hands of Thomas Cadell and William Davies in London and William Creech, bookseller in Edinburgh. Burns was posthumously given the freedom of the town of Dumfries. Through his twelve children, Burns has over living descendants as of Burns's style is marked by spontaneity, directness, and sincerity, and ranges from the tender intensity of some of his lyrics through the humour of "Tam o' Shanter" and the satire of "Holy Willie's Prayer" and "The Holy Fair". Burns's poetry drew upon a substantial familiarity with and knowledge of Classical , Biblical , and English literature , as well as the Scottish Makar tradition. Some of his works, such as "Love and Liberty" also known as "The Jolly Beggars" , are written in both Scots and English for various effects. His themes included republicanism he lived during the French Revolutionary period and Radicalism , which he expressed covertly in " Scots Wha Hae ", Scottish patriotism , anticlericalism , class inequalities, gender roles, commentary on the Scottish Kirk of his time, Scottish cultural identity, poverty, sexuality, and the beneficial aspects of popular socialising carousing, Scotch whisky, folk songs, and so forth. The strong emotional highs and lows associated with many of Burns's poems have led some, such as Burns biographer Robert Crawford, [38] to suggest that he suffered from manic depression —a hypothesis that has been supported by analysis of various samples of his handwriting. Burns himself referred to suffering from episodes of what he called "blue devilism". The National Trust for Scotland has downplayed the suggestion on the grounds that evidence is insufficient to support the claim. The Edinburgh literati worked to sentimentalise Burns during his life and after his death, dismissing his education by calling him a "heaven-taught ploughman". Burns influenced later Scottish writers, especially Hugh MacDiarmid , who fought to dismantle what he felt had become a sentimental cult that dominated Scottish literature. While this may not be so obvious in Service's English verse, which is Kiplingesque, it is more readily apparent in his Scots verse. Scottish Canadians have embraced Robert Burns as a kind of patron poet and mark his birthday with festivities. Lincoln composed a toast. The author J. Salinger used protagonist Holden Caulfield's misinterpretation of Burns's poem " Comin' Through the Rye " as his title and a main interpretation of Caulfield's grasping to his childhood in his novel The Catcher in the Rye. The poem, actually about a rendezvous, is thought by Caulfield to be about saving people from falling out of childhood. Burns became the "people's poet" of Russia. In Imperial Russia Burns was translated into Russian and became a source of inspiration for the ordinary, oppressed Russian people. In Soviet Russia, he was elevated as the archetypal poet of the people. As a great admirer of the egalitarian ethos behind the American and French Revolutions who expressed his own egalitarianism in poems such as his "Birthday Ode for George Washington" or his " Is There for Honest Poverty " commonly known as "A Man's a Man for a' that" , Burns was well placed for endorsement by the Communist regime as a "progressive" artist. A new translation of Burns begun in by Samuil Marshak proved enormously popular, selling over , copies. He remains popular in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union. Burns clubs have been founded worldwide. The first one, known as The Mother Club, was founded in Greenock in by merchants born in Ayrshire , some of whom had known Burns. It includes: the humble Burns Cottage where he was born and spent the first years of his life, a modern museum building which houses more than 5, Burns artefacts including his handwritten manuscripts, the historic Alloway Auld Kirk and Brig o Doon which feature in Burns's masterpiece 'Tam o Shanter', and the Burns Monument which was erected in Burns's honour and finished in Ellisland Farm in Auldgirth , which he owned from to , is maintained as a working farm with a museum and interpretation centre by the Friends of Ellisland Farm. Significant 19th-century monuments to him stand in Alloway, Leith, and Dumfries. An early 20th-century replica of his birthplace cottage belonging to the Burns Club Atlanta stands in Atlanta , Georgia. These are part of a large list of Burns memorials and statues around the world. In the suburb of Summerhill, Dumfries , the majority of the streets have names with Burns connotations. A British Rail Standard Class 7 steam locomotive was named after him, along with a later Class 87 electric locomotive, No. Several streets surrounding the Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. It stood until when it was relocated downtown, sparking protests from the neighbourhood, literary fans, and preservationists of Olmsted's vision for the Back Bay Fens. In November , Burns was awarded the title Honorary Chartered Surveyor [61] by The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, the only posthumous membership so far granted by the institution. The oldest statue of Burns is in the town of Camperdown, Victoria. The Soviet Union was the first country in the world to honour Burns with a commemorative stamp, marking the th anniversary of his death in The Royal Mail has issued postage stamps commemorating Burns three times. In , two stamps were issued, priced fourpence and one shilling and threepence, both carrying Burns's portrait. In , an issue commemorating the bicentenary of his death comprised four stamps, priced 19p, 25p, 41p and 60p and including quotes from Burns's poems. On 22 January , two stamps were issued by the Royal Mail to commemorate the th anniversary of Burns's birth. In the Royal Mint issued a commemorative two pound coin featuring a quote from "Auld Lang Syne". In , singer Jean Redpath , in collaboration with composer Serge Hovey , started to record all of Burns's songs, with a mixture of traditional and Burns's own compositions. The project ended when Hovey died, after seven of the planned twenty-two volumes were completed. In , a musical about Burns's life called Red Red Rose won third place at a competition for new musicals in Denmark. Robert Burns was played by John Barrowman. Alfred B. Burns Night, in effect a second national day , is celebrated on Burns's birthday, 25 January, with Burns suppers around the world, and is more widely observed in Scotland than the official national day, St. Andrew's Day. The first Burns supper in The Mother Club in Greenock was held on what was thought to be his birthday on 29 January ; in it was discovered from the Ayr parish records that the correct date was 25 January The format of Burns suppers has changed little since. The basic format starts with a general welcome and announcements, followed with the Selkirk Grace. After the grace comes the piping and cutting of the haggis , when Burns's famous " Address to a Haggis " is read and the haggis is cut open. The event usually allows for people to start eating just after the haggis is presented. At the end of the meal, a series of toasts, often including a 'Toast to the Lassies', and replies are made. This is when the toast to "the immortal memory", an overview of Burns's life and work, is given. The event usually concludes with the singing of "Auld Lang Syne". Robert Burns won, narrowly beating William Wallace. Biographical information Works written by or about Robert Burns at Wikisource. Quotations related to Robert Burns at Wikiquote. Media related to Robert Burns at Wikimedia Commons. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Scottish poet and lyricist. For other people named Robert Burns, see Robert Burns disambiguation. Poet lyricist farmer excise-man. This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Main article: Ellisland Farm, Dumfries. Main article: Burns supper. Poetry portal Scotland portal. Scottish Executive.

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