Robert Burns

Robert Burns (1759–1796), Scotland's national poet, was born into a tenant farming family in Alloway, Ayrshire, and began writing poetry amid rural hardships and personal struggles, publishing his breakthrough collection *Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect* in 1786.[1][2][4] Known for works like 'Auld Lang Syne' and 'Tam o’ Shanter,' he wrote in Scots and English, celebrating love, nature, and Scottish culture while rebelling against religious orthodoxy.[2][3][4] Burns died young from heart disease exacerbated by rheumatic fever, leaving a legacy that influenced Romantic poets.[1][2][6]