Презентация Роберт Бернс

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Robert Burns was born on 25 January 1759 in Scotland, in the village of Alloway , two miles south of city Ayr . His parents was Willian Burnes and Agnes Broun. They were farmers. Robert was educated briefly at John Murdoch's school in Alloway and later in Ayr .

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House where Robert Burns was born. Today it is museum of memory to Great Poetry

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The family worked hard on their Ayrshire farm, and the arduousness of his labor in adolescence was to have a crippling effect in the long run on Robert's health.

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At just 27, Burns had already become famous across the country with poems such as To a Louse, To a Mouse and The Cotter's Saturday Night. Newly hailed as the Ploughman Poet because his poems complemented the growing literary taste for romanticism and pastoral pleasures, Burns arrived in Edinburgh, where he was welcomed by a circle of wealthy and important friends.

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Robert Burns against a picturesque background

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In just 18 short months, Burns had spent most of the wealth from his published poetry, so in 1789 he began work as an Excise Officer in Dumfries (an irony not lost on him) and resumed his relationship with wife Jean. Robert Burns read poems

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The hard work this new job entailed, combined with the toil of his earlier life and dissolute lifestyle began to take their toll on Burns's health. He died on 21 July 1796 aged just 37. He was buried in the churchyard of St. Michael's in Dumfries.

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Poet Robert Ferguson wrote about grave of Robert Burns: Neither urns, nor a solemn word, The statue in its fencing isn't present. Only naked stone speaks severely: - Scotland! Under a stone - your poe t! Statue to Robert Burns in Edinburgh

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Today Robert Burns is famous all over the world. Millions of people read his poems… Автор презентации Ученик 7-в класса ГОУ СОШ № 180 Шакиров Дмитрий