Robert Burns

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Robert Burns was an 18th-century Scottish poet widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and a central figure in Scottish literature and culture.

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instanceOf Scottish poet
human
lyricist
national poet
poet
songwriter
causeOfDeath rheumatic fever
child Francis Wallace Burns
Maxwell Burns
Robert Burns Jr.
William Nicol Burns
commemoratedBy Burns Night
statues in Scotland
countryOfBirth Scotland
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Great Britain
countryOfDeath Scotland
dateOfBirth 1759-01-25
dateOfDeath 1796-07-21
describedBySource Encyclopaedia Britannica
Dictionary of National Biography
surface form: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
ethnicGroup Scottish
familyName Burns
fieldOfWork Scottish literature
song collecting
genre poetry
satire
song
givenName Robert
hasCulturalDepiction Burns Night
Burns Night
surface form: Burns supper
influenced John Keats
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Romantic poets
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Scottish literature
William Wordsworth
influencedBy Scottish folk tradition
languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned Scots
Scottish Gaelic
movement Romanticism
Scottish Enlightenment
nationality Scottish
nativeLanguage English
Scots
notableWork A Red, Red Rose
Address to a Haggis
Auld Lang Syne
Holy Willie's Prayer
Poems of Robert Burns
surface form: Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect

Scots Wha Hae
Tam o' Shanter
The Battle of Sherramuir
The Cotter's Saturday Night
The Jolly Beggars
The Scots Musical Museum
The Twa Dogs
To a Mouse
occupation excise officer
farmer
lyricist
poet
placeOfBirth Alloway
Ayrshire
placeOfDeath Dumfries
positionHeld excise officer in Dumfries
publicationDate 1786
religion Presbyterianism
residence Alloway
Dumfries
Mauchline
sexOrGender male
spouse Jean Armour
workLocation Ayrshire
Dumfries

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Robert Burns poem "Comin' Thro' the Rye" author Robert Burns
subject surface form: Comin' Thro' the Rye
Robert Burns poem "Comin' Thro' the Rye" writtenBy Robert Burns
subject surface form: Comin' Thro' the Rye
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Burns Mall namedAfter Robert Burns
Scottish literature notableAuthor Robert Burns
Robert Burns poem "The Honest Men and Bonnie Lasses" author Robert Burns
subject surface form: The Honest Men and Bonnie Lasses
John Wilson, printer of the first Kilmarnock Edition of Burns’s poems associatedWith Robert Burns
subject surface form: John Wilson (Kilmarnock printer)
Alloway birthplaceOf Robert Burns
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Alloway commemorates Robert Burns
subject surface form: Burns Monument and Gardens
Burns Statue Square namedAfter Robert Burns
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The Lament author Robert Burns
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The Epistle to John Rankine author Robert Burns
The Ploughman author Robert Burns
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The Lass o' Ballochmyle author Robert Burns
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Auld Lang Syne associatedWith Robert Burns
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Auld Lang Syne lyricsAdaptedBy Robert Burns
Tam o' Shanter author Robert Burns