ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Robert Burns is considered the pioneer of the Romantic Movement. Although his death in 1796 precedes what many consider the start of Romanticism, his lyricism and sincerity mark him as an early Romantic writer. His most notable works are “Auld Lang Syne” (1788) and “Tam o’ Shanter” (1791).

Detailed explanation-2: -He is regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic movement, and after his death he became a great source of inspiration to the founders of both liberalism and socialism, and a cultural icon in Scotland and among the Scottish diaspora around the world.

Detailed explanation-3: -Robert Burns, as a pre-Romantic poet, had a significant influence on the later Romantic poets, such as William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Detailed explanation-4: -Robert Burns is the best loved Scottish poet, admired not only for his verse and great love-songs, but also for his character, his high spirits, ‘kirk-defying’, hard drinking and womanising! He came to fame as a poet when he was 27 years old, and his lifestyle of wine, women and song made him famous all over Scotland.

Detailed explanation-5: -His poems are imbued with the spirit of romantic lyricism in their untutored spontaneity, humour, pathos, sympathy with the nature and her lovely creatures including the sons of the soil. The best work of Burns is entirely lyrical in motive; his poetry comes from the heart and goes to the heart.