5 burns facts
January 22nd, 2008 by scottPublished on July 31 in Kilmarnock in an edition of 600 copies, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect was an immediate success.
In 1784 Burns read the works of the Edinburgh poet Robert Fergusson. Under his influence and that of Scottish folk tradition and older Scottish poetry,
During the next two years he produced most of his best-known poems, including “The Cotter’s Saturday Night,” “Hallowe’en,” “To a Daisy,” and “To a Mouse.” In addition, he wrote “The Jolly Beggars,
While Burns was in Edinburgh, he successfully published a second, 3000-copy edition of Poems (1787), which earned him a considerable sum. From the proceeds he was able to tour (1787) the English border region and the Highlands and finance another winter in Edinburgh.
Burns was born in Alloway, Ayrshire, January 25, 1759. He was the eldest of seven children born to William Burness, a struggling tenant farmer, and his wife, Agnes Broun.