Editor's note: This story was originally published on Jan. 24, 2020, before the restrictions of the pandemic limited social gatherings. But even COVID-19 can't dampen the collective spirit of Robert ...

Walk around the market town of Dumfries, Scotland, and at first glance you’ll see what looks like a kind of graffiti in the windowpanes — faint etchings in some, and in others verses written boldly in ...

Host Jacki Lyden marks the 250th birthday of Scottish poet and haggis lover Robert Burns. She hears from Alison Jones, a champion of Burns' poems. Jones is also a champion reciter — she won The Robert ...

Robert Burns (1759-1796) was the premiere Scottish poet and balladeer, regarded in Scotland with the same reverence as Shakespeare in England—and, like Shakespeare’s creative use of Elizabethan ...

The image of poetry fans gathered in a pub enjoying bagpipes, haggis, drinks and verse is a very Scottish one, but Scotland’s national poet Robert Burns has fans worldwide who know there’s no better ...

LONDON — Although their heart is in Scotland, the poems of Robert Burns have made a massive impact throughout the world. The titles of both John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and J.D. Salinger's The ...

My Heart’s in the Highlands 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 ...

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Brigham Young University’s L. Tom Perry Special Collections will celebrate the 250th birthday of the poet Robert Burns with the exhibit, “Robert Burns and the Poetic Image,” opening with a reception ...

More than two centuries have passed since the death of Robert Burns, but Scotland's most famous poet looks very much alive in a new animation created by a team of researchers in the U.K. Released ...

Robert Burns, the national poet of Scotland, will turn 254 years old on Friday — or he would, anyway, if he hadn’t died in 1796. Still, dead or not, a birthday’s a birthday and requires celebration.

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