This collection was an immediate success and Burns was celebrated throughout England and Scotland as a great “peasant-poet.” His biographer, DeLancey Ferguson, had said, “it was not so much that he was conspicuously sinful as that he sinned conspicuously.” Between 17, Burns also wrote many of the poems collected in his first book, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, which was printed in 1786 and paid for by subscriptions. In 1785, he fathered the first of his fourteen children. As a young man, Burns pursued both love and poetry with uncommon zeal. This hard labor later contributed to the heart trouble that Burns suffered as an adult.Īt the age of fifteen, Burns fell in love and, shortly thereafter, he wrote his first poem. His father died in bankruptcy in 1784, and Burns and his brother Gilbert took over farm. Burns also attended one year of mathematics schooling and, between 17, he attended an “adventure” school established by his father and John Murdock. His father, a tenant farmer, educated his children at home. He was the first of William and Agnes Burnes’s seven children. Robert Burns was born in Alloway, Scotland, on January 25, 1759.
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