ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -’Halloween’. ’The Banks o’ Doon’. ’John Anderson My Jo’. ’To a Louse’. ’Holy Willie’s Prayer’. ’A Red, Red Rose’. ’A Man’s a Man for A’ That’. ’Auld Lang Syne’. More items

Detailed explanation-2: -Most of Burns’s poems were written in Scots. They document and celebrate traditional Scottish culture, expressions of farm life, and class and religious distinctions. Burns wrote in a variety of forms: epistles to friends, ballads, and songs. His best-known poem is the mock-heroic Tam o’ Shanter.

Detailed explanation-3: -Robert Burns is a beloved Scottish poet who is celebrated every year on Burns Night. He wrote over 550 poems and songs in his lifetime.

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.