Robert Burns’ biography

Rabbie Burns
National Bard, Bard of Ayrshire 
National poet of Scotland, who wrote lyrics
and songs in Scots and in English
The Ploughman Poet
Pioneer of the Romantic movement.
Born: January 25, 1759
Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland
Died: July 21, 1796
Dumfries, Scotland
Scottish poet
Early life –In south –west Scotland
He is the first of William and Agnes Burns’
children
Farming
Little formal education- French
,latin,mathematics
He had little regular schooling and got
much of his education from his father, Here Burns grew up in poverty and hardship,
who taught his children reading, writing, Known as museum
Built by his father
arithmetic, geography, and history
Alloway, Scotland,---Easter Edinburgh

Home education-taught by John Murdock-Addventure school-

Parish school-Kirkoswald
Since he was a boy, Robert Burns found farm
work demanding and detrimental to this health
Love affairs
when he was 15
he felt in love
first time

Helen

Elizabeth

Jean Amour

Mary Champel
His ideas

French revolution
romantic period
Scotland cultural history
critical view of religious
and political establishments
humanitarian Deism.
against the dominant extreme 
Calvinist wing of the church
being a dangerous rebel
against orthodox religion
Interesting facts
His Death
After death