January 25, 2011.
This is Robbie Burns Day...celebrated by Scots around the world!
A poet noted in his own time, for his call for social equality, and for his compiling and saving of Scottish poems in the vernacular, Robert Burns is also remembered every New Year's Eve, with the singing of Auld Lang Syne.
Read a poem or two...enjoy his wit and charm...his romantic spirit (My Love is Like a Red Red Rose)...and his recognition that we are all "brothers", globally, regardless of circumstances of birth.
In his time, he was known as a Pre-Romantic, foreshadowing Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats and Shelley...and could be viewed, in his own era, as a revolutionary.
Enjoy his writings!
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