In 1786, Robert Burns was looking for an escape route. He couldn't earn enough money working as a farmer in Ayrshire and his home life wasn't much happier. Robert Burns accepted a job on a ...

The keynote speaker takes the stage to deliver a spell-binding oratoration on the life of Robert Burns: his literary genius, his politics, his highs and lows, his human frailty and - most ...

No matter what the situation is there’s likely a Robert Burns quote that will apply. More than 200 years since his death, the words of Robert Burns continue to inspire people around the world.

It is widely believed that Robert Burns first came under the censure of the church in 1784-1785 owing to his affair with a servant girl Elizabeth Paton. This resulted in the birth of his first ...

This is not written by Robert Burns but by a poetical tailor called Thomas Walker.

Even Shakespeare isn't afforded that accolade. Every year on the 25th of January, we pay tribute to Robert Burns, Scotland's national poet, with Burns suppers featuring recitals of the bard's best ...

and Chamber's included it in his Life and Works of Robert Burns (1897). Chambers believed that much of Burns more radical political poetry had been concealed to protect Burns name, but had faith ...

Robert Burns was eventually dissuaded from emigrating by the success of his Kilmarnock Edition (1786) and the promise of a further edition to be published in Edinburgh.

The poem 'Robert Burns's Answer' (?1786) was written in response to Thomas Walker of Pool (d.c.1812). In 1786, Burns was publicly rebuked in Mauchline Kirk for impregnating Jean Armour ...