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Painted portrait, 1787Alexander Nasmyth · Public domain

Robert Burns

Burns brings rural experience, social rank and human vulnerability into poems and songs. Follow his Scots-speaking voices and their circumstances rather than reducing them to slogans.

1759 AD – 1796 AD · 246 collected ↗