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Robert Burns
1759–1796
A farmer’s son who turned everyday speech, wit, and feeling into unforgettable poetry, he became Scotland’s national poet and a voice known far beyond his own time. His songs and verses still feel lively, warm, and deeply human.
6 Audiobooks
Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
by Robert Burns
The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
by Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham
Lauluja ja ballaadeja
by Robert Burns
The Letters of Robert Burns
by Robert Burns
Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Robert Burns
by Robert Burns
Songs and lyrics of Robert Burns
by Robert Burns
About the author
Born in Alloway, Ayrshire, on January 25, 1759, Robert Burns grew up in a hardworking farming family and knew rural life at first hand. That background shaped much of his writing: he drew on ordinary speech, local customs, and the lives of working people, giving his poems an energy and honesty that still stand out.
Burns wrote in both Scots and English, and he became famous after the 1786 publication of his first collection, often called the Kilmarnock volume. He is especially remembered for poems and songs such as To a Mouse, Tam o’ Shanter, and Auld Lang Syne. Alongside poetry, he also collected and adapted traditional Scottish songs, helping preserve them for later generations.
Though he died young in Dumfries on July 21, 1796, Burns left an enormous cultural legacy. Often affectionately called Rabbie Burns, he is celebrated around the world as Scotland’s national poet, and his work continues to be read aloud, sung, and cherished for its humor, compassion, and sharp understanding of human nature.