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Should auld acquaintance be forgot, / And never brought to mind? / Should auld acquaintance be forgot, / And days o’ lang syne?

—Auld Lang Syne

Robert
Burns

Robert Burns

1759–96, Scottish poet.… His great popularity with the Scots lies in his ability to depict with loving accuracy the life of his fellow rural Scots, as he did in “The Cotter’s Saturday Night.” His use of dialect brought a stimulating, much-needed freshness and raciness into English poetry, but Burns’s greatness extends beyond the limits of dialect. His poems are written about Scots, but, in tune with the rising humanitarianism of his day, they apply to a multitude of universal problems.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.)

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WORKS: The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
557 works by the most lauded poet of Scotland, with a glossary of over 1,900 words and phrases. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. VI.; Bartlett’s Burns Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.; Burns, Robert, 9256 to 9326
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
ANTHOLOGIZED VERSE: Ae Fond Kiss (OBEV); A Farewell (Gold); A Red, Red Rose (OBEV); Auld Lang Syne (OBEV); Banks o’ Doon (OBEV); Bonnie Lesley (Gold); Bonnie Lesley (OBEV); Duncan Gray (Gold); Farewell (OBEV); Hark! the Mavis (OBEV); Highland Mary (Gold); Highland Mary (OBEV); Jean (Gold); Jean (OBEV); John Anderson (Gold); John Anderson, my Jo (OBEV); Lament for Culloden (Gold); Lament for Culloden (OBEV); Mary Morison (Gold); Mary Morison (OBEV); My Bonnie Mary (OBEV); O my Luve’s like a red, red rose (Gold); O were my Love yon Lilac fair (OBEV); To a Mouse (Gold); Ye banks and braes o’ bonnie Doon (Gold)
WRITINGS ABOUT BURNS: “Burns”
Chapter by T. F. Henderson with bibliography from the Cambridge History of English Literature.

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