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Robert Burns

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Born
1759

Died
1796

Publications
Poetry, songs

Writing language
Scots dialect

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Literature

Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1796)

Poems

• To a Mouse (1785)

• Auld Lang Syne (1780)

• Tam O'Shanter (1790)

• Sweet Afton (1791)

• A Red, Red Rose (1794)

• A Man's a Man for a' That (1795)

British Literature

Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1796)

Works published in book form

Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, The Killmarnock Edition, poetry collection, 1786

Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, The First Edinburgh Edition, poetry collection, 1786

Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, The Second Edinburgh Edition, poetry collection, 1793

The Scots Musical Museum, ed. James Johnson, song collection with contributions from Burns making up about a third, in six volume, 1787–1803

A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs for the Voice, edited George Thomson, song collection with more than 100 contributions from Burns, in instalments starting 1793

The Works of Robert Burns, ed. James Currie, collected works in four volumes, 1800

Poems, Ascribed to Robert Burns, ed. Thomas Stewart, collection of previously uncollected poems, 1801

 

 

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