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Birth
Robert Burns was born in Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland in a poor family of a farmer. There were seven children in it. Robert was the eldest. -
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The beginning of creativity
The first book of Burns, which brought him popularity, "Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish dialect" was published in 1786. The initial period of creativity also includes: “John Barleycorn" (1782), "The Jolly Beggars"(1785), "Holy Willie's Prayer", "The Holy Fair"(1786). The poet quickly became known throughout Scotland. -
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Traveling across Scotland
Robert Burns traveled across Scotland a lot searching for interesting stories about his country and the Scots. He did it because he loved his motherland very much. He visited Caerlaverock Castle, Loch-Ness, Fingal's Cave. -
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The peak of creativity
During this period, the famous poems “Tam o'Shanter” (1790), “A Man’s A Man’s For A 'That” (1795), " Ode, sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Oswald " (1789), and a poem dedicated to John Anderson (1789). -
Death
Robert Burns died in Damfries, where he had already left sick on official business 2 weeks before his death. He was only 37 years old. Modern biographers are inclined to think that Burns died from the consequences of hard physical labor in his youth and chronic rheumatic carditis, which the poet had suffered from childhood, and in 1796 the disease was aggravated by diphtheria.
