Burns, Robert

Burns, Robert (1759 - 1796)

Index to poems
  1. A Red, Red Rose
  2. A Winter Night
  3. Address to the Devil
  4. Ae Fond Kiss
  5. Afton Water
  6. Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes
  7. Comin thro' the Rye
  8. Duncan Gray
  9. Epistle to J. Lapraik
  10. For a' That and a' That
  11. From Lines to William Simson
  12. Highland Mary
  13. It was a' for our Rightful King
  14. Last May a Braw Wooer
  15. Mary Morison
  16. Scots Wha Hae
  17. Tam Glen
  18. Tam O 'Shanter
  19. The Cotter's Saturday Night
  20. The Holy Fair
  21. To a Mountain Daisy
  22. To a Mouse
  23. Ye Flowery Banks (Bonie Doon)
Biography
  • Crawford, Robert. “Burns, Robert (1759-1796).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004.
Given Name
Robert
Family Name
Burns
Birth Date
January 25, 1759
Death Date
July 21, 1796
Nationality
Scottish
Family Relations
father : William Burnes
mother : Agnes Burnes
wife : Jean Burns (from 3 Aug. 1788)
son : Robert Burns
son : Francis Wallace
son : William Nicol
son : James Glencairn Burns
daughter : Elizabeth Burns
daughter : Elizabeth Paton
son : Maxwell Burns
Education
Religion
Honours
Occupations
  • Exciseman



Literary Period
Romantic
Literary Movement
Unknown
Illness
Cause of Death
Rheumatic fever
Buried At
St Michael's churchyard, Dumfries
First RPO Edition
1997