![]() ![]() That he is considered Scotland’s national poet today owes much to his position as the culmination of the Scottish literary tradition, a tradition stretching back to the court makars, to Robert Henryson and William Dunbar, to the 17th-century vernacular writers from James VI of Scotland to William Hamilton of Gilbertfield, to early 18th-century forerunners such as Allan Ramsay and Robert Fergusson. ![]() … and by all probability I shall soon be the tenth Worthy, and the eighth Wise Man, of the world.” Although he did not set out to achieve that designation, he clearly and repeatedly expressed his wish to be called a Scots bard, to extol his native land in poetry and song, as he does in “The Answer”:Īnd perhaps he had an intimation that his “wish” had some basis in reality when he described his Edinburgh reception in a letter of Decemto his friend Gavin Hamilton: “I am in a fair way of becoming as eminent as Thomas a Kempis or John Bunyan and you may expect henceforth to see my birthday inserted among the wonderful events, in the Poor Robin’s and Aberdeen Almanacks. He is considered the national poet of Scotland. His poetry recorded and celebrated aspects of farm life, regional experience, traditional culture, class culture and distinctions, and religious practice. However, toward the end of his life he became an excise collector in Dumfries, where he died in 1796 throughout his life he was also a practicing poet. Like his father, Burns was a tenant farmer. Robert Burns was born in 1759, in Alloway, Scotland, to William and Agnes Brown Burnes. ![]()
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