ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -When his father died in 1784, Robert and his brother Gilbert took over the farm, but within a few years they were in financial trouble. To make matters worse, Burns was already the father of an illegitimate child – the first of his 13 children.

Detailed explanation-2: -For two years Burns worked as both a farmer and an exciseman, having received his excise commission on 14 July 1788. He had to ride two hundred miles a week to carry out his excise duties and had also to labour in the fields. In early 1790 the annual rent rose to £90 and Burns decided to give up his lease.

Detailed explanation-3: -He was born in a house built by his father (now the Burns Cottage Museum), where he lived until Easter 1766, when he was seven years old. William Burnes sold the house and took the tenancy of the 70-acre (280, 000 m2) Mount Oliphant farm, southeast of Alloway.

Detailed explanation-4: -A careful review of Robert Burns’s terminal illness, especially as documented in his correspondence, supports the widely held contention that death may have been due to subacute bacterial endocarditis secondary to chronic rheumatic heart disease.

Detailed explanation-5: -The poet and songwriter Robert Burns died in 1796, aged 37.