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	Robert Burns Country: the official Robert Burns site
		The full text of the authoritative Robert Burns reference volume, for students or enthusiasts alike.
		Burns Cottage, Burns Monument, Burns Museum, Brig O'Doon, Auld Kirk o' Alloway, and the Tam O'Shanter Experience.
		Linn Records have completed their landmark recording of all 368 Burns songs, available as individual CDs or a 12 volume presentation box set.
	www.robertburns.org (325 words)

	Robert Burns - MSN Encarta
		Robert Burns (1759-96), Scottish poet and writer of traditional Scottish folk songs, whose works are known and loved wherever the English language is read.
		Burns was born in Alloway, Ayrshire, January 25, 1759.
		Charmed by Burns, the literati mistakenly believed him to be an untutored bard, a “Heavens-taught Plowman.” He resented their condescension, and his bristling independence, blunt manner of speech, and occasional social awkwardness alienated admirers.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761575796/Burns_Robert.html (599 words)

	Robert Burns - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Burns' period in the lodge was a hectic one.
		Burns and his works were a source of inspiration to the pioneers of liberalism, socialism and the campaign for Scottish self-government, and he is still widely respected by political activists today, ironically even by conservatives and establishment figures because after his death Burns became drawn into the very fabric of Scotland's national identity.
		Burns is generally classified as a proto-Romantic poet, and he influenced William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Percy Bysshe Shelley greatly.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Burns (2984 words)

	Robert Burns Woodward - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Burns Woodward (April 10, 1917–July 8, 1979) was an American organic chemist.
		Woodward was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Arthur Woodward (an immigrant from England) and Margaret Woodward, nee Burns (an immigrant from Scotland, born in Glasgow).
		Robert Burns Woodward and the Art of Organic Synthesis: To Accompany an Exhibit by the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry (Publication / Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry); Mary E. Bowden; Chemical Heritage Foundation, March 1992
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Burns_Woodward (2445 words)

	Robert Burns Night
		Robert Burns (1759-1796) was a master poet and song writer as well as a great collector of tunes and words.
		Robert and Jean had a further 5 children apart from the two sets of twins but only 3 children survived to adulthood and there are no direct male descendants.
		Robert Burns was a great collector of tunes and words and he has preserved a lot of material that would otherwise have been lost.
	www.scotlandsmusic.com /robert-burns.htm (1176 words)

	Robert Burns and Auld Lang Syne
		Robert Burns, the National Bard of Scotland, was born in on 25 Jan 1759, in the tiny village of Alloway, Ayrshire, near to the town of Ayr on the West Coast of Scotland, the son of William Burnes, [1] an Ayrshire cottar.
		Robert Burns (often now referred to as "Rabbie") was born in this cottage, the eldest son of seven children to be born to William and Agnes.
		Burns, a member of the Dumfries Volunteers – a local militia – was buried with military honors by members of the Volunteers together with members of his parent unit, the Fencib’e Infantry of Augusshire, and the regiment of cavalry of the Cinque Ports.
	www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com /Hymns_and_Carols/Biographies/robert_burns.htm (3739 words)

	Robert Burns Biography.
		Robert Burns was born near Ayr, Scotland, 25th of January, 1759.
		He was the son of William Burnes, or Burness, at the time of the poet's birth a nurseryman on the banks of the Doon in Ayrshire.
		It is evident that Burns was a man of extremely passionate nature and fond of conviviality; and the misfortunes of his lot combined with his natural tendencies to drive him to frequent excesses of self-indulgence.
	www.visitdunkeld.com /burns-biography.htm (1002 words)

	Poetry of Scotland - Poems and Songs by Robert Burns, Scotland's greatest Poet, Scottish Ballads, Scottish songs, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Robert Burness was born in a small cottage in the parish of Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland on the 25th of January in the year 1759.
		Robert was the eldest son of the marriage.
		Robert's father was a man of superior knowledge and was upright of a strong character.
	www.it-serve.co.uk /poetry/Burns/burnshome.php (1112 words)

	Robert Burns, life and death in Dumfries
		Robert Burns was born on 25th January 1759, in the tiny village of Alloway, Ayrshire, near to the town of Ayr on the West Coast of Scotland.
		William Burnes, (note the original spelling, pronounced Burn-iss and later changed by Robert Burns himself) was then granted a tenancy or lease over a small area of farmland which he worked whilst continuing in his position as Head Gardener at Doonholm.
		Robert Burns (often now referred to as "Rabbie") was born in this sparse little cottage, the eldest son of a poor peasant farmer.
	www.theoldexchange.com /robert-burns.htm (1162 words)

	Robert Burns biography
		Robert Burns was born at Alloway, near Ayr, on January 25, 1759.
		Robert was educated briefly at John Murdoch's school in Alloway and later in Ayr.
		Burns spread his affections freely, and the next decade saw 8 illegitimate children born to him through 5 different women.
	www.britainexpress.com /History/bio/burns.htm (440 words)

	Robert Burns - Biography and Works
		Robert (Rabbie) Burns was born on 25 January, 1759 in Alloway, Ayrshire of south west Scotland, the son of a poor tenant farmer or “cotter” William Burnes [Burness] (1721-1784) and his wife Agnes Broun [Broun].
		The Burns family lived in a cottage that William himself had built, and which John Keats would later visit and write his sonnet “Written in the cottage where Burns was born”.
		Burns was a handsome, dark-haired young lad; a hard worker at the plow, and he worked as a flax dresser for a time.
	www.online-literature.com /robert-burns (2124 words)

	Scotland Guide - Literature and Poetry - Info on Robert Burns
		Robert Burns, the National Bard of Scotland, was born in on 25 Jan 1759, the son of an Ayrshire cottar.
		Burns is often hailed as the champion of Scots but he was broader than that and drew extensively on Highland music too, perhaps through his relationship with Highland Mary.
		Whether the Gaelic one predates the Burns version is not known, but it is perhaps possible given that puirt a beul could have arisen from the banning of the pipes in the years 1747 to 1782 and Burns was around between 1759 and 1796.
	www.siliconglen.com /Scotland/5_2.html (1086 words)

	Robert Burns
		Burns was born on January 25, 1759, the son of a poor but ambitious gardener.
		Burns was a farmer; his admiration of the beautiful Ayrshire countryside, and his love of dancing, music and conversation contributed to his personality, charm and deep knowledge of the human spirit, which established his reputation as a man of passion and unique literary talent.
		Burns did not have sufficient confidence in his ability to earn his living by writing, and, with some misgivings, in 1788 he took on the tenancy of a farm north of Dumfries.
	www.britannia.com /news/burns.html (974 words)

	Robert Burns Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Robert Burns was born in Alloway, Ayrshire, on Jan. 25, 1759, in the cottage of hard-working farmer parents.
		At this time Burns was 27, and he had written some of the most effective and biting satires in the language.
		In addition, Burns was in love with Mary Campbell, the "Highland Mary" of his lyric, but she died in 1786, apparently in giving birth to his child.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/robert-burns (835 words)

	Robert Burns
		Robert Burns (January 25, 1759-July 21, 1796) is the national poet of Scotland.
		Burns died of heart failure in early middle age, his heart having been damaged when he was young by rheumatic fever.
		Burns could not guess whether the afterlife would be merely "to moulder with the clods of the valley" or to some reward for "having acted an honest part among his fellow creatures." "The close of life," he wrote, "to a reasoning eye is 'dark as was chaos.'"
	www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/robertburns.html (2230 words)

	SLAINTE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Burns was born at Alloway near Ayr on 25th January 1759, the eldest of a family of seven born to William and Agnes Burnes.
		The Burnes family hailed from Kincardineshire, but William had moved south in the aftermath of the Jacobite rebellion, first to Edinburgh and then to Ayrshire where he was employed as a landscape gardener.
		The future poet's earliest years were spent in the "auld cley biggin", the cottage which William Burnes had erected on a portion of the land which he had feued as a market garden, and it was here that he and his brother Gilbert received their brief formal education at the hands of John Murdoch.
	www.slainte.org.uk /scotauth/burnsdsw.htm (1064 words)

	Robert Burns
		Robert got very little education, since he so often had to help with the heavy work of farming, but he read a great deal, and that made up for a lot.
		Robert gave her some kind of paper acknowledging her as his wife, but her father was outraged and tore the paper up
		Robert was very angry at her for that, and when he was suddenly a successful poet and Jean's father was pushing for them to marry, Robert, triumphantly, refused her hand
	incompetech.com /authors/burns (976 words)

	robert_burns
		In a tiny two-roomed cottage, clay-built and thatch-roofed, on the banks of the Doon, in the district of Kyle, two miles south of the town of Ayr, in Scotland, Robert Burns was born on January 25th, 1759.
		If Burns was a sinner he was in that akin to ourselves, as God knows, a little good and a little bad, a little weak and a little strong, foolish when he thought he was wise, and wise, often, when he feared he was foolish.
		That which lives in Robert Burns, and will live while human nature is the same, is his love of justice, of honesty, of reality, his touch of pathos and melting sympathy, his demand for liberty, his faith in man and God - all uttered with simple speech and the golden voice of song.
	www.phoenixmasonry.org /robert_burns.htm (2385 words)

	Scotsman.com Heritage & Culture - Robert Burns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		BURNS campaigners have hit out at plans to hire a £50,000-a-year spin doctor for a project to mark the 250th anniversary of the bard's birth while the future of the cottage where he was born remains in doubt.
		THE inn where Robert Burns inscribed a poem is being marked for its pivotal role in history.
		ROBERT BURNS WAS sanctified during the late 18th and 19th centuries as the "heaven-taught...
	heritage.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=162 (489 words)

	Robert Burns Biography and Summary
		Unlike William Burnes, however, Burns was able to escape the vicissitudes and vagaries of the soil in...
		Eighteenth-century Scottish poet Robert Burns wrote or adapted one of the most instantly recognizable songs in the world, "Auld Lang Syne," which is chorused annually around the globe on New Year's Eve or at the end of any pleasant evening or convocation...
		Robert Burns(January 25, 1759 – July 21, 1796) was a poet and songwriter.
	www.bookrags.com /Robert_Burns (366 words)

	Robert Burns Scotland's National Bard Scottish Poet
		Robert Burns was Scotland's greatest poet and many would say that he was the world's greatest ever poet.
		Burns was born at Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland on 25 January 1759 and died in Dumfries on 21 July 1796.
		Burns had a fantastic sense of humour which was reflected in his satirical, descriptive, and naughty verse.
	www.heritage-of-scotland.com /burns.htm (896 words)

	Robert Burns
		Burns, Robert (1759-96), Scottish poet and writer of traditional Scottish folk songs, whose works are known and loved wherever the English language is read.
		Burns was born in Alloway, Ayrshire, January 25, 1759.
		Charmed by Burns, the literati mistakenly believed him to be an untutored bard, a "Heavens-taught Plowman." He resented their condescension, and his bristling independence, blunt manner of speech, and occasional social awkwardness alienated admirers.
	www.dumfries-and-galloway.co.uk /people/burns.htm (916 words)

	Burns trail in Ayrshire, Dumfriesshire and Edinburgh. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Burns Cottage built by Robert Burns father is the place where the story begins.
		Robert Burns was twenty nine, in the prime of his life and at the peak of his powers, when he came to Ellisland.
		The Burns Howff Club was formed in 1889 and has played a prominant part in Burns Federation matters.
	www.gowanbank99.freeserve.co.uk /burns (634 words)

	Robert Burns websites
		Burns National Heritage Park - a unique encounter with Scotland's most exceptional man. Set among the delightful scenery of historic Alloway, Burns National Heritage Parkis an unmatched opportunity to experience Scotland's National Poet.
		Ellisland Farm - Some of Robert Burns' best-loved nature poems were inspired by the tranquil setting of Ellisland Farm.
		Of the twelve founding members of the club five were known to Robert Burns, two of whom were close friends of the poet.
	scotlandinter.net /robertburns.htm (176 words)

	ROBERT BURNS' MONUMENT
		John Forbes Mitchell, of Bombay; and the object at first contemplated was a colossal statue of the poet, to be raised in the open air in some conspicuous part of the Scottish capital.
		Flaxman, December 3, 1826, the statue of Burns was one of those which he left unfinished: the work was completed by his brother-in-law and pupil, Mr.
		It is to be hoped that some step may be taken to avert a result which the public could not fail greatly to deplore, both on account of the beauty of the object as a work of art, and the homage due to the illustrious person whom it represents.
	www.fortunecity.com /athena/exercise/2492/BURNSMONUMENT (434 words)

	Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Robert Burns
		Born in Alloway, Scotland, on January 25, 1759, Robert Burns was the first of William and Agnes Burnes' seven children.
		Burns also attended one year of mathematics schooling and, between 1765 and 1768, he attended an "adventure" school established by his father and John Murdock.
		Burns wrote in a variety of forms: epistles to friends, ballads, and songs.
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/709 (513 words)

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