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Poetry by Robert Burns (30 P) This page was last edited on 19 January 2025, at 12:34 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Burns Cottage in Alloway, South Ayrshire. Burns was born two miles (3 km) south of Ayr, in Alloway, Ayrshire on the west coast of Scotland, the eldest of the seven children of William Burnes (1721–1784), a self-educated tenant farmer from Dunnottar in the Mearns, and Agnes Broun (1732–1820), the daughter of a Kirkoswald tenant farmer.
"Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation" is a Scottish folk song whose lyrics are taken from a poem written by Robert Burns in 1791, listed as number 5516 in the Roud Folk Song Index. It has continued to be associated with Scottish nationalism and also been referenced in other situations where politicians' actions have gone against popular opinion.
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Robert Burns's three Commonplace books, 1783 to 1785, a second 1787 to 1790 and a third 1789 to 1794. [1] are personal compilations of early drafts of songs, prose and some poetry as well as observations on people, places and ideas.
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The book, which was published in 1786, is expected to fetch between £50,000 and £60,000.
In 1787, Burns travelled to Edinburgh with the intention of organizing a second edition. He was introduced to publisher William Creech and printer William Smellie, and agreed with them that the new edition should include many additional poems and commission the famous frontispiece portrait, engraved by John Beugo from a painting by Alexander Nasmyth.