This poem is thought to have been written sometime during 1777 when Burns was at Mount Oliphant with his family. The tone of the poem reflects the misery which the Burnes family endured on the ...

The Second Epistle follows a reply from Lapraik to Burns' first Epistle to J. Lapraik, An Old Scotch Bard and is mostly autobiographical in content and details the bad luck which has been the ...

The keynote speaker takes the stage to deliver a spell-binding oratoration on the life of Robert Burns: his literary genius, his politics, his highs and lows, his human frailty and - most ...

In 1786, Robert Burns was looking for an escape route. He couldn't earn enough money working as a farmer in Ayrshire and his home life wasn't much happier. Robert Burns accepted a job on a ...