English Literature / Unit 12 ENL 1112 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Robert Burns and the Scots Lyric
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The idea
Robert Burns, a farmer's son, is regarded as Scotland's national poet and the best known poet in the Scots language, often in a light Scots dialect readable beyond Scotland. He preserved over three hundred traditional songs, including "Auld Lang Syne."
In practice
Scots, song, the farmer-poet.
Where people slip
Burns wrote in Scots and in English.
Your place on the trail
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