TY - BOOK AU - Burns, Robert TI - The collected poems of Robert Burns : : with an introduction and biblliography SN - 1853264156 [newsprint] PY - 1994/// CY - Hertfordshire : PB - Wordsworth Poetry Library KW - English poetry N1 - Adult N2 - Robert Burns the most celebrated of all Scottish poets is remembered with great devotion his birthday on 25th January provokes fervour and festivity among Scots and many others the world over Born in 1759 into miserable rustic poverty by the age of eighteen Burns had acquired a good knowledge of both classical and English literature In June 1786 his first collection of verse Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect which included To a Mouse and The Cotters Saturday Night was greeted with huge acclaim by all classes of society His later poems and ballads include Auld Lang Syne the beautiful song My Love is like a Red Red Rose Highland Mary Scots Wha Hae and his masterpiece Tam oShanter. --Provided by the Publisher ER -