Contents: 1. Poems and songs, by Robert Burns Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics)

A collection of poems and songs by Robert Burns, the National Bard of Scotland.This is the companion script to Almost Tangible's award-winning audio production of Robert Burns, a Collection of Poems and Songs. Read along as you listen on headphones for the best experience!The collection includes:A Man's A Man for a' ThatA Poet's Welcome to his Love-Begotten DaughterAddress to a HaggisAe Fond KissA Red Red RoseAuld Lang Syne...

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. His father, though always extremely poor, attempted to give his children a fair education, and Robert, who was the eldest, went to school for three years in a neighboring village, and later, for shorter periods, to three other schools in the vicinity. But it was to his father and to his own reading tha...

I have become aware over the years that most people are stuck in auto pilot mode. If it cannot be seen, it doesn't exist. I wrote this short yet very explicit book to inform the population of what is going on around us constantly.

The Scottish poet Robert Burns has been idolised and eulogised. He has been sainted, painted, tarted-up and toasted. He is famous as the author of 'Auld Lang Syne', and he has long been the patron saint of the heartsore and the hungover. But what about the poems? Beneath the cult of Burns Nights and patriotic yawps, there is the work itself, among the purest and most truthful created in any age.This is a Burns collection like no other, introduced, arranged and contextualised by the...

The Complete Works gathers Robert Burns's poems, songs, epistles, satires, and occasional verse into a portrait of extraordinary range: rustic comedy, political indignation, erotic tenderness, devotional unease, and democratic fellow-feeling. Written in Scots, English, and rich hybrid idioms, these works transform vernacular speech into high literary art. In the context of the Scottish Enlightenment and late eighteenth-century Romantic emergence, Burns stands between oral tradition and pri...

Ride headlong into humor, folklore, and supernatural thrill with Tam O’Shanter by Robert Burns, an BOOK that captures the full spirit and fire of one of Scotland’s most beloved narrative poems. This lively tale, rich with wit and rhythm, draws listeners straight into the exhilarating adventure of Tam—an ordinary man who stumbles into an extraordinary night of enchantment and peril.Robert Burns, master poet and keen observer of human nature, blends ...

The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poet...

Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796) (also known as Robbie Burns, Rabbie Burns, Scotland's favourite son, the Ploughman Poet, Robden of Solway Firth, the Bard of Ayrshire and in Scotland as The Bard) was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in English and a light Scots dialect, accessible to an a...

In his short life, Robert Burns forged for himself a reputation as a poet and songwriter that has never been eclipsed. Today, more than 200 years after his death, his verse remains among the most popular in the world.Best known for his dialect lyrical verse on nature, love, patriotism and rural life, as well as for such well-loved songs as ‘Auld Lang Syne’ and ‘Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn’ (‘Scots Wha Hae’), he was equally as skilful with great lyrics on ph...

Night. The day has gone. Departed. And the dark embrace, the inky shadows of night descend. For many a time to unwind and slumber. For some a nagging doubt that all is not well. That some primeval and primordial happening may yet go bump in the night.But for our poets the night is a time of wonder and imagination as well as many other emotions and feelings. Among our ranks of gloried talents are Keats, Coleridge, William Morris, DH Lawrence, Whitman, Longfellow and many more beside...

'Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!' Robert BurnsRobert Burns, poet and lyricist, also known as Rabbie Burns, is widely regarded as the National Poet of Scotland - and much of his work has become part of everyday modern language:'The best laid schemes o' mice and men...''To see her is to love her...'Often credited with writing the lyrics for Auld Lang Syne, he almost sin...