Robert Burns 罗伯特彭斯
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Today, Burns is unique in the affection and fascination that his memory inspires. The fruits of his legacy can be seen not only in Scotland but around the world on product packaging, in advertising and on a wealth of merchandise, as well as through continued scholarship and academic study.
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
Zhengboren
INTRODUCTION
Robert Burns, Scottish poet and writer of traditional Scottish folk songs, whose works are known and loved wherever the English language is read.
Agnes Brown, Burns' mother
By permission of the National Galleries of Scotland
Arduous farm work and undernourishment in his youth permanently injured his health, leading to the rheumatic heart disease from which he eventually died.
He went in 1781 to Irvine to learn flax dressing, but when the shop burned down, he returned home penniless.
He had, meanwhile, composed his first poems. The poet's father died in 1784, leaving him as head of the family. He and his brother Gilbert rented a farm, but the venture proved a failth-century scholar and educationalist J. S. Blackie summed up Burns's importance to Scotland and the Scots with the words:
'When Scotland forgets Burns, then history will forget Scotland.'
Birthplace of Robert Burns
Alloway
EARLY LIFE—“A very poor man’s son”
Burns was born on January 25, 1759. He was the eldest of seven children born to William Burness, a struggling tenant farmer, and his wife, Agnes Brown.
Although poverty limited his formal education, Burns read widely in English literature and the Bible and learned to read French.
He was encouraged in his self-education by his father, and his mother acquainted him with Scottish folk songs, legends, and proverbs.
Auld Lang Syne
Robert Burns is the best known of the poets who have written in Scots. His poem
Auld Lang Syne is often sung at Hogmanay.
His memory is celebrated by Burns clubs across the world; his birthday is an unofficial "National Day" for Scots and those with Scottish ancestry, celebrated with Burns suppers. Robert Burns was born into a farming family at Alloway in Ayrshire in 1759. He died in Dumfries at the early age of 37. Yet in that short time he had taken the Scottish literary world by storm, and had secured a place for himself in history and in legend.
FIRST VERNACULAR POEMS
In 1784 Burns read the works of the Edinburgh poet Robert Fergusson. Under his influence and that of Scottish folk tradition and older Scottish poetry, he became aware of the literary possibilities of the Scottish regional dialects.
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
Zhengboren
INTRODUCTION
Robert Burns, Scottish poet and writer of traditional Scottish folk songs, whose works are known and loved wherever the English language is read.
Agnes Brown, Burns' mother
By permission of the National Galleries of Scotland
Arduous farm work and undernourishment in his youth permanently injured his health, leading to the rheumatic heart disease from which he eventually died.
He went in 1781 to Irvine to learn flax dressing, but when the shop burned down, he returned home penniless.
He had, meanwhile, composed his first poems. The poet's father died in 1784, leaving him as head of the family. He and his brother Gilbert rented a farm, but the venture proved a failth-century scholar and educationalist J. S. Blackie summed up Burns's importance to Scotland and the Scots with the words:
'When Scotland forgets Burns, then history will forget Scotland.'
Birthplace of Robert Burns
Alloway
EARLY LIFE—“A very poor man’s son”
Burns was born on January 25, 1759. He was the eldest of seven children born to William Burness, a struggling tenant farmer, and his wife, Agnes Brown.
Although poverty limited his formal education, Burns read widely in English literature and the Bible and learned to read French.
He was encouraged in his self-education by his father, and his mother acquainted him with Scottish folk songs, legends, and proverbs.
Auld Lang Syne
Robert Burns is the best known of the poets who have written in Scots. His poem
Auld Lang Syne is often sung at Hogmanay.
His memory is celebrated by Burns clubs across the world; his birthday is an unofficial "National Day" for Scots and those with Scottish ancestry, celebrated with Burns suppers. Robert Burns was born into a farming family at Alloway in Ayrshire in 1759. He died in Dumfries at the early age of 37. Yet in that short time he had taken the Scottish literary world by storm, and had secured a place for himself in history and in legend.
FIRST VERNACULAR POEMS
In 1784 Burns read the works of the Edinburgh poet Robert Fergusson. Under his influence and that of Scottish folk tradition and older Scottish poetry, he became aware of the literary possibilities of the Scottish regional dialects.