Robert Burns
On 21 July 1796, Robert Burns, the Ploughman Poet, died in Dumfries at the age of 37. The son of a poor tenant farmer, Burns seemed an unlikely candidate to become one of Scotland’s greatest poets. He was born in South Ayrshire, and the backbreaking work he was made to take on at an early age left him with a premature stoop and weakened health. … Continue reading Robert Burns