He was given irregular schooling and a lot of his education was with his father, who taught his children reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, and history and also wrote for them A Manual of Christian Belief.
Here Burns grew up in poverty and hardship, and the severe manual labour of the farm left its traces in a weakened constitution. William Burnes sold the house and took the tenancy of the 70-acre (280,000 m 2) Mount Oliphant farm, southeast of Alloway. He was born in a house built by his father (now the Burns Cottage Museum), where he lived until Easter 1766, when he was seven years old. Other poems and songs of Burns that remain well known across the world today include " A Red, Red Rose", " A Man's a Man for A' That", " To a Louse", " To a Mouse", " The Battle of Sherramuir", " Tam o' Shanter" and " Ae Fond Kiss".īurns was born two miles (3 km) south of Ayr, in Alloway, the eldest of the seven children of William Burnes (1721–1784), a self-educated tenant farmer from Dunnottar in the Mearns, and Agnes Broun (1732–1820), the daughter of a Kirkoswald tenant farmer. His poem (and song) " Auld Lang Syne" is often sung at Hogmanay (the last day of the year), and " Scots Wha Hae" served for a long time as an unofficial national anthem of the country.
In 2009 he was chosen as the greatest Scot by the Scottish public in a vote run by Scottish television channel STV.Īs well as making original compositions, Burns also collected folk songs from across Scotland, often revising or adapting them. 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. He is regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic movement, and after his death he became a great source of inspiration to the founders of both liberalism and socialism, and a cultural icon in Scotland and among the Scottish diaspora around the world. He also wrote in standard English, and in these writings his political or civil commentary is often at its bluntest. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is in a "light Scots dialect" of English, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide. Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796), also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, was a Scottish poet and lyricist.
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