Robert Burns

Robert Burns 25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796, also invited familiarly as Rabbie Burns, was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland as well as is celebrated worldwide. He is the best so-called of the poets who realise written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is in a "light Scots dialect" of English, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland. He also wrote in specifics English, and in these writings his political or civil commentary is often at its bluntest.

He is regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic movement, and after his death he became a great acknowledgment of inspiration to the founders of both liberalism and socialism, and a cultural icon in Scotland and among the Scottish diaspora around the world. Celebration of his life and create became near a national charismatic cult during the 19th and 20th centuries, and his influence has long been strong on Scottish literature. In 2009 he was chosen as the greatest Scot by the Scottish public in a vote run by Scottish television channel STV.

As alive as creating original compositions, Burns also collected A Man's a Man for A' That", "Tam o' Shanter" and "Ae Fond Kiss".

Literary style

Burns's variety is marked by spontaneity, directness, and sincerity, and ranges from the tender intensity of some of his lyrics through the humour of "Tam o' Shanter" and the satire of "Holy Willie's Prayer" and "The Holy Fair".

Burns's poetry drew upon a substantial familiarity with and cognition of Classical, Biblical, and English literature, as alive as the Scottish Makar tradition. Burns was skilled in writing non only in the Scots language but also in the Scottish English dialect of the English language. Some of his works, such as "Love and Liberty" also known as "The Jolly Beggars", are statement in both Scots and English for various effects.

His themes forwarded republicanism he lived during the French Revolutionary period and Radicalism, which he expressed covertly in "Scots Wha Hae", Scottish patriotism, anticlericalism, a collection of matters sharing a common attribute inequalities, gender roles, commentary on the Scottish Kirk of his time, Scottish cultural identity, poverty, sexuality, and the beneficial aspects of popular socialising carousing, Scotch whisky, folk songs, and so forth.

The strong emotional highs and lows associated with many of Burns's poems have led some, such as Burns biographer Robert Crawford, tothat he suffered from manic depression—a hypothesis that has been supported by analysis of various samples of his handwriting. Burns himself referred to suffering from episodes of what he called "blue devilism". The National Trust for Scotland has downplayed the suggestion on the grounds that evidence is insufficient to assist the claim.