Born 25th January, 1759.

Robert Burns was a humanitarian, libertarian and equalitarian.

Burns was a collector of the traditional music and songs of rural Scotland.

The eldest of seven children born to William and Agnes Burnes.

Burns poems, mostly in the Scottish dialect, appeared at Kilmarnock in July 1786 in an edition of 612 copies at three shillings.

He published a second edition in April 1787.

From 1787 onwards Burns tended to concentrate on songs, collecting and mending the ancient ballads of Scotland.

Burns was also a letter writer.

Burns also had ambitions to write for the stage.

His only work of dramatic merit is The Jolly beggars.

Two centuries after the Kilmarnock Edition, over 2000 editions of Burns have been published, with translations into 50 languages.

Died 21st July, 1796.



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