Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

Poems and Songs of Robert Burns Robert Burns - Robert Burns (1759 – 1796) called himself "an Aeolian harp strung to every wind of heaven." His first volume of poems, entitled Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, was published in 1786. An immediate success, it established Burns''s poetic reputation, which has grown over two centuries to the point where he is not only the Scottish national poet b...