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Burns, Robert (1759 - 1796)

Index to poems

  1. Address to the Devil
  2. Ae Fond Kiss
  3. Afton Water
  4. Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes
  5. Comin thro' the Rye
  6. The Cotter's Saturday Night
  7. Duncan Gray
  8. Epistle to J. Lapraik
  9. For a' That and a' That
  10. From Lines to William Simson
  11. Highland Mary
  12. The Holy Fair
  13. It was a' for our Rightful King
  14. Last May a Braw Wooer
  15. Mary Morison
  16. A Red, Red Rose
  17. Scots Wha Hae
  18. Tam Glen
  19. Tam O 'Shanter
  20. To a Mountain Daisy
  21. To a Mouse
  22. A Winter Night
  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

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