Famous people.
Robert Burns

Robert Burns, Scotland's national poet, was born on January 25, 1759 in Scotland.
His father, William Burns, was a poor farmer, There were seven children in the family, and Robert was the eldest. His father knew the value of a good education, and he tried to give his children the best education he could afford.
Robert's mother knew many Scottish songs and ballads and often sang them to her son in his childhood.
Robert Burns became fond of reading. He read whatever he could lay his hands on. His favorite writers were Shakespeare (1564-1616), Smollett (1721-1771), Robert Fergusson, a talented Scottish poet (1750-1774).
Robert Burns began to write poetry when he was fifteen. He composed verses to t h e melodies of old folk-songs, which he had admired from his early childhood. He sang of the woods, fields and wonderful valleys of his native land.
Burns published some of his poems in 1786. Their success was complete.
Robert Burns
became well known and popular.

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B u r n s
left E d i n b u r g h a n d returned to his native village with money enough to buy a farm and marry Jean Armor. Burns devoted to Jean many beautiful poems, such as "I love my Jean", "Bonnie Jean" and many others.
Although Robert Burns' poems were very popular, he always remained poor.
H e w o r k e d h a r d a n d destroyed his health. He died in poverty at the age of thirty - seven in 1796.
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New York City. Memorial of Robert Burns in Central Park.

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City. Memorial of Robert Burns in Central Park

The poetry and songs of
Robert Burns
are famous all over the world. Robert Burns' poems and verses inspired Beethoven, Schumann, Mendelssohn and other composers who wrote music to them.
The most popular poems of Robert Burns are "The Tree of Liberty", "My Heart's in the Highlands", "A Red, Red Rose" and many others.
Samuil Marshak translated Robert Burns’ poems into Russian.

On 25, January millions of people celebrate Burns’ Night, not only in Scotland, but also across the whole world. Burns Supper
Robert Burns is the symbol of the national pride. Celebration takes place in the form of a supper in national suits, in Celts.
This evening read most p o p u l a r p o e m s o f Robert Burns. For supper, serving traditional S c o t t i s h dishes. Haggis is the most important dish. After supper, begin Scottish dancing to the sounds of bagpipes.

Poems Of all dishes Robert Burns preferred Haggis which became the main course of his supper and to which he devoted his greeting words.
“Address to a Haggis”

Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,

Great chieftain o' the pudding-race!

Aboon them a' yet tak your place,

Painch, tripe, or thairm:

Weel are ye wordy o'a grace

As lang's my arm….

«Ода Хаггису»

В тебе я славлю командира

Всех пудингов горячих мира, -

Могучий Хагис, полный жира и

требухи

Строчу, пока мне служит лира,

Тебе стихи…

O SCOTIA! My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent! Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health and peace and sweet content! And O may Heaven their simple lives prevent From Luxury’s contagion, weak and vile! Then howe’er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous Populace may rise the while And stand a wall of fire, around their much-lov’d them better still, Even in extremely of ill . Now we should recall Burns’ great love to his native land and to its people. All of Burns’ poetry shows him to be one of the greatest masters of lyrical verse, warm patriot of his country. Шотландия! Родной, любимый край! За сыновей твоих мои моленья! Здоровый дух, довольство, мир – пускай Всегда хранят их мирные селенья! Да не коснется их зараза тленья Яд роскоши, пороков гнусных гной. Пусть мир тогда торгует без стесненья Коронами, но остров свой родной Народ весь окружит, как пламенной стеной!
Robert Burns blessed God to live in such a beautiful land. Travelling about the country, he admired its hills, fields, rivers and lochs. The “native soil” inspired him to write such wonderful lines in the poem: My heart`s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart`s in the Highlands, a chasing the deer; Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe; My heart in the Highlands, wherever I go.- Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North; The birth- place of Valour, the country of Worth; Wherever I wander, wherever I rove, The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.- My Heart’s in the Highlands В горах мое сердце... Доныне я там. По следу оленя лечу по скалам. Гоню я оленя, пугаю козу. В горах мое сердце, а сам я внизу. Прощай, моя родина! Север, прощай, - Отечество славы и доблести край. По белому свету судьбою гоним, Навеки останусь я сыном твоим!

To Burns, all men were born equal and a man’s worth does not depend on the weight of his purse or the acreage of his estate. This is most famously stated in the song … Is there for honest Poverty That hings his head, an' a' that; The coward slave-we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that! For a' that, an' a' that. Our toils obscure an' a' that, The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The Man's the gowd for a' that. ЧЕСТНАЯ БЕДНОСТЬ Кто честной бедности своей Стыдится и все прочее, Тот самый жалкий из людей, Трусливый раб и прочее. При всем при том, При всем при том, Пускай бедны мы с вами, Богатство - Штамп на золотом, А золотой - Мы сами! A Man's A Man For A' That