Robert Burns and Rural Scotland

Robert Burns was born into a farming family at Alloway in Ayrshire in 1759. He died in Dumfries at the early age of 37. His great popularity with the Scots lies in his ability to depict with loving accuracy the life of his fellow rural Scots, as he did in many of his poems. His use of dialect brought a stimulating, much needed freshness and raciness into English poetry, but the greatness of Robert Burns extends beyond the limits of dialect. His poems are written about Scots, but, in tune with the rising humanitarianism of his day, they apply to a multitude of universal problems.

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