Robert Burns

of Love (1899), The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists, Excluding Shakespeare (1911), The Facts About Shakespeare (1913/1931) and Robert Burns: How to Know Him (1917). Robert Burns (1759-1796) (also known as Rabbie Burns, Scotland's favourite son, the Ploughman Poet, the Bard of Ayrshire and in Scotland as simply The Bard) was a poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best-known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in English and a 'light' Scots dialect, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland. He also wrote in standard English, and in these pieces, his political or civil commentary is often at its most blunt. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.