Robert Burns Robert Burns is a Scottish national poet born on January 25, 1759 in Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland. His best work is in Scotland, southern Scottish. He writes lyrics and songs in Scots and in English. His intense feelings and technical skills characterize the work of Scottish poet Robert Burns. Typical poetry themes include republicanism, radicalism, Scottish patriotism, anti-clericalism, class inequality, gender roles, poverty and sexuality. Burns is often regarded as a proto-Romantic poet, who influenced William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Although his parents, Willian Burnes and Agnes Broun were tenant farmers, they made sure their son received a relatively good education and he began to read diligently. Th...
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